Deshi:  There is an intimate relationship between Love and Fear - is there not?

Sensei:  Yes, they are opposite to each other.

Deshi:  And there is an intimate relationship between Love and Awareness - is there not?

Sensei:  Yes, the latter must precede the former.

Deshi:  Then what is the relationship between Fear and Paranoia?

Sensei:  As Fear is the egocentric contrast to Love, Paranoia is the egocentric contrast to Awareness.  Fear and Paranoia are our incapacity to practice non-attachment toward our ego.  In a way, they are the selfish desire to displace God with our own person - they are our drive to see us in the center of the universe - to have everything revolve around us.

Deshi:  Then they are based in delusion?

Sensei:  You are seeing things clearly.