Quotes by Fear My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move, for fear she'd let go my hands. Let me stay, I wanted to beg: Please don't make me go. Sonya Hartnett fearletting-gomoving I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know. Socrates never-fearfearknowledge Where do you put your attention? On fear or love? I wish the choice were made just once and not repeated every moment of the day. Sophy Burnham choicesfearwish What would you do if you weren't afraid? Spencer Johnson changefearlife Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. Soren Kierkegaard creativityfearhappiness Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day. Sophocles oedipusfearmen Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real. See the imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj realfearbeautiful To the man who is afraid everything rustles. Sophocles he-manfearmen I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj futurefearpast Meditation is the only way to overcome fear. There is no other way. Why does meditation help us overcome fear? In meditation we identify ourselves with the vast, with the Absolute. When we are afraid of someone or something, it is because we do not feel that particular person or thing is a part of us. When we have established conscious oneness with the Absolute, with the Infinite Vast, the everything there is part of us. And how can we be afraid of ourselves? Sri Chinmoy onenessmeditationfear Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear. St. Catherine of Siena freedom-of-speechtelling-the-truthfear God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal. Soren Kierkegaard atheismfearthinking The worst decisions of your life will always be those that are made out of fear. Sherrilyn Kenyon decisionfearmade 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. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj fearpeacedeath It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way. Stan Dale fearsweethands An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type. Stanislav Grof spiritualityimportantfear The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them. Stanley Coren dogfeardoors The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass. Stanislaw Lem glassesfearnight Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be afraid. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj shadowfearlooks I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. Stanley Kubrick motivationfeareducation«110111112113114115116117118119120»
