Greetings from Russell's Remnant:
Some of Morya's comments on Fear:
Imperil, fear, doubt and self-pity destroy. AY 236
People fear and grow irritated about the future. AY 206
Fear sees its own reflection. Each preconceived opinion is usually a reflection. FW3 114
Faint-heartedness borders on many dark traits. Nearest of all is treachery. It borders on fear, cowardice and selfhood. In the Fiery World there is no place for faint-heartedness. FW3 159
People fear that which from childhood they have been told is dangerous. FW3 312
He who fears the future belongs to darkness. HE 232
Absence of fear is the first condition to halt any evil. FW2 113
People are usually enticed into the black lodge by promises of long life, for great is the fear of death, and also by promises of riches and of great power. FW3 335
People are often more perturbed by thunder than by lightening. Likewise with events people are more troubled by the reverberation than by the essence. Only a novice fears the thunder of cannons and does not hear the flight of a bullet. HIE 198
Anything of good quality fears no test. AUM 144
Every condition is created by consciousness; therefore, there is nothing to physically fear. AT 250
Let us abolish fear. With it will depart property ownership and boredom. MG2 205
The development of observation will lead to fearlessness. HE 244
The Teacher fears not, yet is not reckless. AY 25
Some of D.K.'s comments on Fear:
Fear is the product of ignorance. It is basically instinctual. The power of fear is enormously aggravated by thoughtforms we have built. It grows in power as we pay attention to it, for "energy follows thought." TWM 238
Fear reduces man to a timid atom of sentient life. He stands afraid, aware of his insufficiency as a man to cope with all situations. Fear is the dominant astral energy at this time, and sensitive humanity succumbs all to easily to it. TWM 297+
The masses are sound, but ignorant of the higher values. They are negative in action, prone to words and not deeds. They are easily led and also easily swayed by imparted fear. RAI 742
Fears so prevalent today are: of loss of friends and loved ones, of health, of money and of popularity. TWM 297
There are a number of lesser centers. There are energies pouring into the spleen from planetary sources as well as into two small centers on either side of the kidneys. These kidney centers are closely related to the lower levels of the astral plane and let loose much fear. EP2 529
The most ordinary manifestations of astral activity are: fear; depression or its opposite pole, hilarity; desire for the satisfaction of the animal appetites; desire for happiness; desire for liberation; and aspiration. TWM 297
The emotional body, through violent emotion, is continuously out of alignment. It takes many lives of strenuous endeavor before the emotional body can be stilled and the mental body built. LOM 6
Fear is the seed of all glamour upon our planet. GLA 46
The aspirant is not permitted: excessive emotion, fear or worry, jealousy, cloudgray depression, greed, self-pity.LOM 346
Achieve utter fearlessness. Eliminate all fear, doubt and worry. TWM 344
Be not over-anxious over anything that may eventuate. DN2 553
"Fear of the disease kills more people than the disease itself. Mr. Fear kills more than Mr. Cholera. To overcome fear build up thoughts of hope, courage, and faith. Use your mantra, prayer or read scriptures. With that faith in the Supreme Power nothing can affect you. Build up the body, build up the nerves and build up the mind." Sri Swami Satchidananda, a student of Sri Aurobindo.
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If - by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run --
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!