"I must not fear. Fear is the mindkiller. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
~Frank Herbert, Dune
via yoko
I like it.
Similar, albeit simpler, is:
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
--Mark Twain
Posted by: Thogek | June 27, 2005 at 10:09 PM
I have come to believe that fear is a lack of acceptance. This is often fueled by a lack of knowledge. Hence "fear of the unknown" for how do you accept something that you don't know. The trick lies in knowing the things that you think you are afraid of. At least that's how it works for me.
sort of.
Posted by: eno | July 01, 2005 at 10:27 AM