Sacred Space: Calm & Fear 

Bliss is joy minus feverishness, and that is not temporal, it's not a few seconds, a few minutes, but something that lasts all the 24 hours -- walking, talking, eating, sitting, sleeping -- that thrill, that joy, that vibration, that ecstasy, that peak experience lasting all the time, that is enlightenment, that is bliss.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar


When fear arises... notice the sensations and ideas that accompany it, the trembling, the coolness, the scary stories it tells. Fear is always an anticipation of the future, an imagination. Notice what happens to your sense of trust and well-being, your belief about the world.

Jack Kornfield

There are no special tricks involved in overcoming fear in order to achieve a certain state of being. When a person actually understands that he is in a state of paranoia, then that implies an underlying deep subconscious understanding of the other side, some feeling of the other aspect of it in his mind.

Chogyam Trungpa

Calmness and tolerance act like air conditioning in a hot room. They increase everyone's efficiency.

Dadi Janki

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

Oscar Wilde

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.

Bertrand Russell