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"The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve...The state of non-fear is
not negation, it is not the opposite of fear nor is it courage. In understanding the
cause of fear, there is its cessation, not the becoming courageous, for in all becoming
there is the seed of fear"
The Book of Life, March 31 |
| "So what is fear totally - not the various forms of fear, not the various
leaves of this tree of fear but the total tree of fear? Right?
How does one see the totality of fear? To see something totally or to listen to something completely there must be freedom, mustn't there? Freedom from prejudice, freedom from your conclusion, freedom from your wanting to be free of fear, freedom from the rationalization of fear. Please follow all this. Freedom from the desire to control it - can the mind be free of all that? Otherwise it can't see the whole. I am afraid. I am afraid because of tomorrow, losing a job, afraid I may not succeed, afraid I might lose my position, afraid that there I will be challenged and I'll not be able to reply, afraid of losing my capacity - all the fears that one has. Can you look at it without - please listen - any movement of thought which is time, which causes fear? Have you understood something?" J. Krishnamurti Public Talk, Saanen 20th July 1975 |
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"The oberver is fear and when that is realised there is no longer any
dissipation of energy in the effort to get rid of fear, and the time-space
interval between the observer and the observed disappears. When you see that you
are part of fear, not separate from it--that you are fear--then you
cannot do anything about it; then fear comes totally to an end."
Freedom from the Known, p.48 |
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"Fear cannot be eliminated through discipline, sublimation, or through any other act of will:
its causes have to be searched out and understood. This needs patience and an awareness
in which there is no judgment of any kind."
Intellect, Authority and Intelligence |
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"What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance,
is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it.
We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it."
Unknown source |
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"Most people are afraid to stand alone; they are afraid to think things out for themselves,
afraid to feel deeply, to explore and discover the whole meaning of life..."
On Love and Loneliness, p.100 |
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"Thought breeds fear, doesn't it? Please let us be quite sure; do not accept what the speaker is
saying; be absolutely sure for yourself as to whether thought is the origin of fear."
The Flight of the Eagle, p.12 |
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"There is fear of pain. Physical pain is a nervous response, but psychological pain arises when I
hold on to things that give me satisfaction, for then I am afraid of anyone or anything that may
take them away from me."
The First and Last Freedom, p.83 |
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"To live without fear means to live without a particular pattern. When I demand a particular way
of living that in itself is a source of fear. My difficuly is my desire to live in a certain frame.
Can I not break the frame?"
The First and Last Freedom, p.85 |
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"...fear is the non-acceptance of what is."
The First and Last Freedom, p.86 |
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"...fear can never be overcome through any form of discipline, through any form of resistance. That
fact must be clearly seen, felt and experienced: fear cannot be overcome through any form of
defence or resistance nor can there be freedom from fear through the search for an answer or
through mere intellectual or verbal explanation.
Now what are we afraid of? Are we afraid of a fact or of an idea about the fact? Are we afraid of the thing as it is, or are we afraid of what we think it is? Take death, for example. Are we afraid of the fact of death or of the idea of death? The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another. Am I afraid of the word 'death' or of the fact itself? Because I am afraid of the word, of the idea, I never understand the fact, I never look at the fact, I am never in direct relation with the fact. It is only when I am in complete communion with the fact that there is no fear." The First and Last Freedom, p.187 |
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"Fear is obviously the outcome of naming, of terming, of projecting a symbol to represent the fact;
that is, fear is not independent of the word, of the term.
...There is freedom from fear only when the mind is capable of looking at the fact without translating it, without giving it a name, a label. ...Therefore if one would be completely free of fear it is essential to understand this whole process of terming, of projecting symbols, images, giving names to facts." The First and Last Freedom, p.187-189 |
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"Fear in whatever form prevents the understanding of ourselves and of our relationship to
all things."
Education and the Significance of Life, p.58 |
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"One is afraid of public opinion, afraid of not achieving, not fulfilling, afraid
of not having the opportunity; and through it all there is this extraordinary
sense of guilt—one has done a thing that one should not have done; the sense of
guilt in the very act of doing; one is healthy and others are poor and
unhealthy; one has food and others have no food. The more the mind is inquiring,
penetrating, asking, the greater the sense of guilt, anxiety...Fear is the urge
that seeks a Master, a guru; fear is this coating of respectability, which every
one loves so dearly—to be respectable. Do you determine to be courageous to face
events in life, or merely rationalize fear away, or find explanations that will
give satisfaction to the mind that is caught in fear? How do you deal with it?
Turn on the radio, read a book, go to a temple, cling to some form of dogma,
belief?
Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas and beliefs. If you see that fear is destructive, then how do you proceed to wipe the mind clean? You say that by probing into the cause of fear you would be free of fear. Is that so? Trying to uncover the cause and knowing the cause of fear does not eliminate fear." The Book of Life, March 23 |
