#fear

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity. ↗

— Lewis Grizzard

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An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

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Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

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The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

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Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood. ↗

— Terry Gross

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What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out. ↗

— Terry Gross

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And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of this be sure, that you shall be very much feared and reverenced. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

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I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world. ↗

— Paul Haggis

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Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives. ↗

— Christy Turlington

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When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

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