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Fear Quotes by Rajneesh

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Rajneesh says fear can make us rush and doubt, but love and courage can push us forward instead. He notes that true fearlessness means feeling fear and still acting with bravery. He also reminds us that letting go of childhood fears can lighten life.

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Man is always exploited through fear.

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Anger is fear in disguise.

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Those who have known death from inside lose all fear of death.

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Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.

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Moving from love, not fear - a beautiful idea, especially when applied literally to the body.

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Every being is in search of truth, but small fears go on preventing you.

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The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you…

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We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.

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Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, fearlessness is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it.

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Remain alert about your blindness, about your fear, about your ignorance, and just your alertness will dispel the whole darkness of blindness,…

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The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death,…

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People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves. They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain…

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Deep love creates deep fear. It looks like death because the I disappears, the you disappears - and it is a sort…

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Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the…

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Love dispels fear just as light dispels darkness. If even for a moment you have been in love with someone, fear disappears…

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Tension means hurry, fear, doubt. Tension means a constant effort to protect, to be secure, to be safe. Tension means preparing for…

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Become aware of your aloneness - which is a reality. And it is so beautiful to experience it, to feel it, because…

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Everybody is afraid of death for the simple reason that we have not tasted of life yet. The man who knows what…

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Fear kills, want to kill. Fear is destructive. Love is creative energy. When you love you would like to create - you…

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In meditation, once you are gone in, you are gone in. Then, even when you resurrect you are a totally different person.…

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If you understand, if you see, if you can feel and experience that you are not separate from existence, that you are…

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Much is being missed because of fear. We are too attached to the body and we go on creating more and more…

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What is fear? Why are you so afraid? Even if everything is known about you and you are an open book, why…

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People are not afraid of death, they are afraid of losing their separation, they are afraid of losing their ego. Once you…

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Why do we cling to life and why are we afraid of death? You may not have thought about it. The reason…

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This is the fear: death will come and we have not lived yet. We are just preparing to live. Nothing is ready;…

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Remember that hate is not the opposite of love as people think. Hate is love standing upside down; it is not the…

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Another significant point to remember: if you witness anything - fear, anger, hate - they will disappear, leaving a tremendous amount of…

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People have become afraid of love because in love also, death penetrates. If two lovers are sitting side by side in deep…

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The man who has lived his life totally, intensely, passionately, without any fear - without any fear that has been created in…

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A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of…

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Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.

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There is nothing ugly about death; but man, out of his fear, has made even the word, death ugly and unutterable. People…

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But everybody is afraid of death; that too is contagious. Your parents are afraid of death, your neighbors are afraid of death.…

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If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been…

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Your whole past hangs around you with nothing completed - because nothing has been lived really, everything somehow bypassed, partially lived, only…

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In reality, everything is within; the outer is just a projection. Fear is within you; it is projected as a hell. Hell…

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If you love a woman, you can dominate her. That's why lovers go on playing politics with each other, dominating, possessing; the…

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It cannot be, because the way man has treated woman has been basically wrong. Only between two equal persons is there a…

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Relationship may be just out of fear, may not have anything to do with love. Relationship may be just a kind of…

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Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring…

To me, man means awareness of death. I am not saying become afraid of death; that is not awareness. Just be aware of the…

So your life becomes a vital celebration, your relationship becomes a festive thing. Whatsoever you do, every moment is a festival. You eat, and…

"Serenity" is the flavor of meditation.