I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future. Where there are no names and shapes, how can there be desire and fear? With desirelessness comes timelessness. I am safe, because what is not, cannot touch what is. You feel unsafe, because you imagine danger. Of course, your body as such is complex and vulnerable and needs protection. But not you. Once you realize your own unassailable being, you will be at peace.
To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretenses but your own.
Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.
The 2nd secret to success is to be emotionally 'engaged' with your goals, but not emotionally attached. What's the difference? When you are emotionally engaged you create excitement & enthusiasm for the possibility of achieving your goals, but when you are emotionally attached you create fear & pain that you might not.
I really believed that fear is contagious.
People fear they won’t get what they want.
What makes people want to live forever? I don't think it's limited to our materialistic society of today. Even back to Christian times, they were writing about eternal life after death. So even in death there was a discussion of eternal life. I think this is a universal human desire. It's a horrible thought that this conscious being of ours - with our beautiful bodies - is one day going to decay and die. I don't think it so much has to do with the fear of meeting God, as it is just the thought that this all ends.
Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
Fear is the mother of morality.
Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it.
We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.
As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
Have no fear of moving into the unknown.
Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking in this moment. You're living in a story that isn't true for you. " Living a lie is always stressful. And investigating a lie through The Work always leads you back to who you are. Who you are is not an option. You are love. It hurts to believe you're other than who you are, to live any story less than love.
I'm not happy unless I've got a little bit of fear going.
I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.
We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.
What is fear but courage's shadow?
Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
