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
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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.
Fear becomes anxiety when it makes its home in you. Its chief attachment is not memory or villain or situation or future; its chief attachment and subject is you. This strange and imprecise fear can torment the body and enshroud all other fear experiences.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti - One is never afraid of the unknown;...
Dune mantra: “Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
Steven Kotler • Last Tango in Cyberspace: A Novel
The trick isn't to eliminate fear – it's to develop a relationship with it where you can distinguish between fear that's warning you about real dangers and fear that's just playing old tapes of self-doubt.
Matthew Denman • The Altruistic Renegade
The first reaction is one of fear. It’s not that we fear 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
The first reaction is one of fear. It’s not that we fear 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.