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Quotes About Awareness

The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.
~ Seth Godin
Healing is bringing mercy and Awareness into that which we have held in judgment and fear.
~ Stephen Levine
Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.
~ Emiliano Salinas
A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
When we see the secret beauty of anyone, including ourselves, we see past our judgment and fear into the core of who we truly are - not an entrapped self but the radiance of goodness.
~ Tara Brach
The only death I fear is dying ignorant.
~ Steven Erikson
Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The fear of death comes from limited awareness.
~ Deepak Chopra
Fear not, too much, an open enemy; He is consistent--always at his post; But watchful be of him who holds the key Of your own heart, and flatters you the most.
~ Andrew Jackson Downing
Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch? Stay! I can't stand this another minute! Stay!
~ Pema Chodron
If you are never alone you cannot know yourself. And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.
~ Paulo Coelho
Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention.
~ Unknown
If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.
~ Unknown
Fear is the start of wisdom.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.
~ Stephen King
The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.
~ Marianne Williamson
To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.
~ Charlotte Bronte
What we fear is what we do not know. When something is cloaked by the darkness of uncertainty, it's a mystery. Allowing light to penetrate that darkness makes everything clear.
~ Aleatha Romig
It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying.
~ Doris Lessing
Listen to your fear but don't obey it.
~ Seth Godin
Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.
~ Frank Herbert
After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.
~ Isabel Allende
Fear is the touch of death, death reminding us of its existence.
~ Ivan Klíma