Jiddu Krishnamurti - One is never afraid of the unknown;...
You cannot fear something that you do not know. Nobody is afraid of the unknown. What you really fear is the loss of the known. That’s what you fear.
J. Francis Stroud • Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
When the unknown starts to overshadow the known, we are forced to abandon our habituated ways of thinking and doing things, and look to new ways. If we don’t, we risk descending into chaos, authoritarianims, or worse - extinction.
Euvie Ivanova • Baba Yaga, Shamanism, and Emergence
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. Fyodor Dostoevsky