Exercises in Dealing with Fear

'The very nature of will makes it fearless.If we assume 100° as the standard of will — here taken for mind as expressing will — then 10° of will involves 10° of courage, and so on, up to, say, 30°, 50°, 75°, 100° of each. Always there are in any act as many degrees of courage as of will — inevitably.'

'Surely the Universe is the City of the Infinite and true courage is born of a sense of harmony with the world in which we live.'

'Spiritual life need fear nothing, either on the earth below or in the heavens above.'

'Believe in yourself;
Believe in your rights and your work;
Believe in your future.'

"No man should ever despise himself, for brilliant success never attends the man who lowers himself."Mahabharata,the Hindu Epic.

'Self-fear has a voracious appetite. It should be starved to death. There is one certain method for doing this — to take the work, meet the occasion, assume the responsibility, whenever opportunity affords, in spite of all trembling diffidence. Every declination due to fear feeds fear. Every under-taking gone into in spite of fear starves fear. Fear feeds only on fear. The rule of wisdom and courage, then, is — Do the thing in hand, without exceptions, for which you fear failure, the dictates of common sense receiving proper consideration. But do not mistake the fear sense for common sense.'

"Fear nurses up a danger;
And resolution kills it at the birth."Phillips.