20.Frightened easily /timid= afraid of one’s own shadow

Frightened easily /timid= afraid of one’s own shadow

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All the pleasures, problems and pains of life are experienced as different manifestations of these two extreme feelings FEAR and LOVE. We can neither deny nor defy either of them. Though we may have read and recollect many methods or theories about how to deal with them, we may philosophize excellently about them , still when we face them all these theories and philosophies take a back seat. That is the power of these two feelings. But there is one excellent way to deal with both these emotions and this is perhaps the only one way to deal with these two emotions, it is allow them to get in and experience them as they are. When we do that they may either increase in intensity or gradually disappear. We cannot avoid them because they get deeply planted in our mind and heart and then become part of our mind and heart.

A to Z verse on fear of

Indecision is caused by fear of action;

Youth is spoiled by fear of becoming old;

Jealousy is caused by fear of comparison;

Health is spoiled by fear of diseases;

Freedom is curtailed by fear of enemies;

The present is spoiled by fear of future;

Stress builds up through  fear of goals;

Self doubt sets in due to fear of hatred;

Inferiority complex sets in due to fear of intelligence;

Participation is hindered due to fear of jeering;

Activity is hampered by fear of kibitzing [making unwanted and intrusive comments];

Manufacturing activities are reduced for fear of labor problems;

Independent individual ideas suffer due to fear of majority opinion;

Human welfare suffers due to fear of narrow national interests;

Free speech of children is crushed due to fear of objection;

Free thought suffers due to fear of parochial perceptions;

Rituals are religiously enforced due fear of uneasy questions;

Fear is institutionalized by religions for fear of reasoning;

Individual liberty is often curtailed for fear of social acceptance;

Pleasures are lost due to fear of temptations;

Peace suffers due to fear of usurping;

Human life suffers due to fear of violence;

Global progress suffers due to fear of war mongering nations;

Harmony of human species does not happen due to xenophobia;

Peace of mind suffers due to fear of yearning ;

Sense of balance suffers due to fear of zealots.

Quotes from famous authors:-

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.— Mark Twain

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free— Jim Morrison

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.— Shirin Ebadi

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
— Anna Jameson

“The Only Religion That Ought to Be Taught Is the Religions of Fearlessness If you read the Vedas you will find this word always repeated - fearlessness; fear nothing. Fear is a sign of weakness. People must go about their duties without taking notice of the sneers and ridicule of the world”.-Swami Vivekananda

“Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be. If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessnes”. Swami Vivekananda

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.— G. Gordon Liddy

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.— David Ben-Gurion

“It is okay to be afraid ….our inner emotional voice reacts to our fears…and either calms, inspires or responds with a specific painful voice giving rise to worry, anger or disappointment….and fear is good”-- Robert Maurer, a psychologist