"Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness."
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"Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control. It believes it is real and tries hard to maintain its supremacy. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego."
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"When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense."
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"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before."
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"There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls."
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"The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful."
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"And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust"
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"The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then."
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"He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!"
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"When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the Tao, warheads are stockpiled outside the cities. There is no greater illusion than fear, no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe."
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"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy."
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"Now I realize that the trees blossom in Spring and bear fruit in Summer without seeking praise; and they drop their leaves in Autumn and become naked in Winter without fearing blame."
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"Doubt can only be removed by action."
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"Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things."
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"Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself."
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"I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid."
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"When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose."
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"You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough."
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"For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged."
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"In time we hate that which we often fear."
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