Quotes About Awareness

There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong.

Fear is nonacceptance of what is.

To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.

Do something you fear, NOT to conquer the fear, NOT to accomplish a task, but to familiarize yourself with the processes with which fear protects itself, to demystify it.

The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.

The root of fear is the feeling of not being what you are.

See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see... out of fear, conformity or laziness. See the whole world anew each day!

Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.

Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.

The fear that the universe is not what you assume it to be is very basic, especially when you know damn well it isn't what you assume it to be.

I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away.

Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up

Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality

Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.

There is nothing to fear other than my mind.

Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined...they are individuals in their own right.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.

The question I'm constantly asking myself is: what are we afraid of? I think it's important for us to follow that line of fear, because that is ultimately our line of growth.

We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

Feeling fear is a good sign that your survival instincts are intact. You need to appreciate the dangers to stay safe.

No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away. (5)