I see what you are saying, I think. I agree we need to see fear for what it is, and embrace it at times, often it can point us in a better direction and can explain a lot of pain we endure throughout our lives. It can help us identify pain points and help us heal.
But I believe the compassion needs to be emphasized on the person for simply choosing ego over love, not knowing any better. Not compassion for the actual fear.
The fear are scenarios that the ego made up that aren't real to begin with.
The way in which I explain it in this post is more about the choice of the perception you choose. Kind of like, negative vs positive. If we are out seeking problems, we will find probelms, if we are seeking peace, we will find peace.
So giving into the fear VS perceiving life with the lens of Love, the obvious choice should be Love. Which in turn, rises above anything else. It may not mean the fear dies, or it never comes back, but its casts it out of your view/focus/attention.
I believe that the choice of love is made through a process of recognition. By pausing judgement on the fear and looking at the fear for what it is. Stepping back and seeing it's true nature and origin. Fear can only exist within separation consciousness.
The above statement I believe is a process of choosing love. When you can step back and see it from another perspective(that perspective being Love) When you can witness it, it no longer is the lens in which you're seeing it from.
I appreciate you bringing this up, I love diving deeper into things and hearing others perspectives... I tried my best to explain what I meant by it in this post. I think we are on the same page though ;)
Yes, you're right, I think we are on the same page. Sometimes it's hard to put into words something we feel or sense intuitively. It can be tricky or subtle and not obvious to catch what is really going on, the mind often just takes over with generalities.
For me it can be so difficult to understand or see clearly sometimes, that I just shift into the perspective of feeling without over thinking. I focus on the feeling of fear and try and sense backwards from there to it's source or original story. Often the source of the fear is just not see-able, it's just a general sense of unease, and so I just try and let go of trying to resist it and just let it be and try to have compassion all around for what is occurring. That helps at least with the resistance which kinda produces a secondary or compounding suffering.
I agree, it is hard to put feeling in to words sometimes, for sure. These are some deep topics discussed and I think we all have a subtly different way of how we perceive things or how we imagine it. Which would explain a lot of why so many teaching over the history of time are never fully understood or leaving too much up for debate.
But I agree with following the feeling. Our own intuition and what feels right for us is what is important in the end.
I enjoyed having this discussion with you :)