The more the tension between the observer and the fact of fear, the greater t...

The more the tension between the observer and the fact of fear, the greater the effort and the desire to escape, run away or cover up. If one cannot run away, one becomes neurotic because the tension becomes so intense. To live in that intense darkness of fear is a state of neurosis. But when the observer is the observed - not the idea but the fact - then there is no effort at all because there is no contradiction.