Glaser told the medical graduates that the great masters — Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad — all studied and taught the same thing about fear: it is not our enemy. Contrary to the romantic notion that 'there is nothing to fear but fear itself,' they taught that we must know our fear, sit with it, acknowledge it, in order to find our hearts. When we choose compassion for ourselves in the face of fear, we can find compassion for others. And at that moment, we can know in our hearts that we are all one. Fear and love, he said, go together — yin and yang. For the doctors in the audience, this meant that the vulnerability they'd been trained to suppress in order to 'maintain objectivity' was actually the gateway to their deepest capacity to heal.