Fear

"The ego is afraid of the spirit's joy, because once you have experienced it you will withdraw all protection from the ego, and become totally without investment in fear. Your investment is great now because fear is a witness to the separation, and your ego rejoices when you witness to it. Leave it behind! Do not listen to it and do not preserve it."

"The relationship of anger to attack is obvious, but the relationship of anger to fear is not always so apparent. Anger always involves projection of separation, which must ultimately be accepted as one's own responsibility, rather than being blamed on others. Anger cannot occur unless you believe that you have been attacked, that your attack is justified in return, and that you are in no way responsible for it."

"Mankind must not go back to hiding in fear. No one else will protect us, and we must stand up for ourselves. While the rest of mankind dwells in the light, we must stand in the darkness to fight it (anomalies), contain it, and shield it from the eyes of the public, so that others may live in a sane and normal world."

"Although acquired capability may not be directly treatable, explaining to combat veterans how their experiences may have contributed to invincibility or fearlessness toward pain and death may help them maintain awareness of their increased risk. It could be communicated to military personnel in general that they should seek help immediately when they feel suicidal, not because they are weak, but to the contrary, because they may lack fear. This explanation may also help decrease cognitive barriers to seeking aid for mental health."

"I am human, sometimes I feel afraid and sometimes I am worried because even though I am not afraid to spend a few years in jail, I understand that my mother and friends will be worried. I always discuss this in my head. [...] I'm more scared to live in this country, in this world, and do nothing: to spend life too afraid of everything, too afraid to speak or go to certain places, to just be in a normal work and don't create anything for the next generation. In my understanding, that is much more scary than to go to jail."

"Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear."

"To fear the worst oft cures the worse."

"It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't."

"Best safety lies in fear."

"Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; When little fears grow great, great love grows there."

"There is not such a word Spoke of in Scotland as this term of fear."

"Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand."

"True nobility is exempt from fear."

"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer."

"O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts; Possess them not with fear; take from them now The sense of reckoning, if the opposèd numbers Pluck their hearts from them."

"Things done well, And with a care, exempt themselves from fear; Things done without example, in their issue Are to be feared."

"It is the part of men to fear and tremble, When the most mighty gods by tokens send Such dreadful heralds to astonish us."

"For I am sick and capable of fears, Oppress'd with wrongs, and therefore full of fears, A widow, husbandless, subject to fears, A woman, naturally born to fears."

"And make my seated heart knock at my ribs."

"Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings."

"Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly."

"Thou can'st not say I did it; never shake Thy gory locks at me."

"You can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine is blanch'd with fear."

"His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors."

"The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death."

"Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'd a bear!"

"Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly."

"To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe."

"Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear."

"They spake not a word; But, like dumb statues or breathing stones, Gazed each on other, and look'd deadly pale."

"Anything which is accomplished through making other people afraid is wrong. Anything which deprives other people of their dignity is wrong."

"I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life."

"Fear does not prevent death, but it prevents life. If you are afraid, life has no value. If you die, everything dies.~~ December 18, 2024"

"What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow."

"Oderint dum metuant."

"Fear is the foundation of most governments."

"From remote times people have been accustomed to fear so-called death. They were always intimidated by hell, and at the same time were not told about the meaning of perfectment. One cannot ask people to be brave if they do not know why they are on Earth, and where they will be directed when liberated. We entrust Our co-workers to repeat as much as they can to people about the great Eternity and the continuity of life... We know what devastation fear produces in the human organism. Earthly physicians should distinguish a special kind of sickness caused by fear... Let them understand how harmful is fear."

"Fear, imposed from the top down- from shareholder to senior executive, senior executive to executive, and so on down the chain right to the maximally squeezed Manpower temp- is the dominant trope in the post-Reagan corporate culture. One of the simplest ways to instill this fear is to make employees acutely aware that their jobs are never safe."

"Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears."

":Renée Picard:: Sometimes, fear is a friendly reminder you're not ready for something."

":Jean-Luc Picard: No! Fear is fear. It doesn't speak in riddles. Fear means you're smart. You understand the risks."

"He who has overcome his fears will truly be free."

"Nothing is terrible except fear itself."

"The fear that I heard in my father’s voice, for example, when he realized that I really believed I could do anything a white boy could do, and had every intention of proving it, was not at all like the fear I heard when one of us was ill or had fallen down the stairs or strayed too far from the house. It was another fear, a fear that the child, in challenging the white world’s assumptions, was putting himself in the path of destruction."

"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other."

"Fear is the product of ignorance, and in its initial stages it is not the product of wrong thinking. It is basically instinctual, and is found dominating in the non-mental animal kingdom, as well as in the human kingdom... But in the human, its power is increased potently through the powers of the mind, and through memory of past pain and grievance, and through anticipation of those we foresee, the power of fear is enormously aggravated by the thoughtform we ourselves have built of our own individual fears and phobias. This thoughtform grows in power as we pay attention to it, for "energy follows thought", till we become dominated by it."

"Far too many people have been swept into the post-9/11 system of fear that is the basis of all public policy these days."

"Every time you go into battle, you are scared shitless. The panic will rise inside of you and you have to develop a technique to keep it down. The trick is to keep your fears under control. First, you have to know your fears. There are several kinds of fear a combat soldier has to deal with: First of all, there is a 'deployment or mission fear.' This starts the day when you get your orders to go into combat. It's like a fist in the stomach. From this day on, until you come back home to safety you will feel this fear. Sometimes it's just a gloomy feeling, the certainty that you are doomed and sometimes, it makes you wake up in the morning with thoughts like: "Fuck! What have I done?!" This fear is the easiest to control. Keep busy, avoid moments of lineliness and stay focused on the task at hand. Fortunately, as soon as a soldier gets his or her marching orders, life becomes very busy and there isn't much time to start with deep thinking, anyway."

"The second fear is the 'battlefield fear.' This is the concrete, clear and present fear in face of a life-threatening situation. To get shot, to get maimed by a grenade or to step on a mine. Every soldier has a different method to manage this fear. I used to lie to muyself that the situation was much better than it looked, that the enemy wasn't that close, the shots were not aimed at me and the sound behind the bush was an animal and not an enemy soldier. My auto-suggestion method worked out fine for me. I also invented 'mantras' to calm myself down. One of them went like: "Today is a good day to die. But not for me. Not today!" Of course, endlessly repeating that you are not dying today, won't increase your chances to survive, but you can fool yourself into believing that it does. It worked and I calmed down. Other soldiers were using other methods, a lot of them were praying, others sang songs and some soldiers overcame their fear through shouting out loud or cursing. I lied to myself or repeated my mantras. Whatever works for you is fine. The third type of fear, however, is the worst. It's not only related to combat, but all of us will experience it one day. It's the fear of imminent death. That you won't be there anymore. In combat, this happens when you are in a really hopeless situation. This fear is the worst feeling I have ever experienced, almost like if somebody pushes you from a cliff and you have inly seconds to live. You feel completely alone. In the end, there is nothing you can do to overcome this fear. While other fears can be managed, you cannot train or prepare for your last moment on earth."

"Fear is real and there is nothing you can do about it except to keep functioning, keep your hands and legs and body moving, your mind focused on the task at hand."