“There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.”
Source: A Million Little Pieces
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“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) edited by Larry Chang, p. 193
This is actually a pithy modern-day 'summary' of the "Abhaya Sutta" (AN 4.184). It appears in "Buddha’s Little Instruction Book" by Jack Kornfield (p88).
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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CV: On Facing the World With Confidence
“I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear.”
Letter to the New York Herald Tribune (29 November 1947)
Context: I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear. Nothing lately has unsettled my party and raised my fears so much as your editorial, on Thanksgiving Day, suggesting that employees should be required to state their beliefs in order to hold their jobs. The idea is inconsistent with our constitutional theory and has been stubbornly opposed by watchful men since the early days of the Republic.
[2005, Stations of Wisdom, World Wisdom, 102, 978-0-94153218-1]
God, Reverential fear and love
“The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.”
“One must not fear the words anymore when one consented to the things.”
On ne doit plus craindre les mots lorsqu'on a consenti aux choses.
Alexis (1929)
Source: Unpopular Essays
Part 2, Ch. 18
The Woman in the Dunes (1962)
