Usually in a moment of actual danger we don't have time to think about being afraid. Imagining dangerous situations creates the real difficulty. We have an experience of fear and then we project it out. We do that because it gives us an opportunity to fight against that situation or run from it. But they're both ways of avoiding the actual experience of fear.
To simply experience a moment of danger can open up into wonder and excitement. It's the avoidance of danger that causes us such difficulties.
paraphrased from an interview of Robert Kull on the NPR program, To the Best of Our Knowledge.
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