When Kafka allows a friend to understand that he writes because otherwise he would go mad, he knows that writing is madness already, his madness, a kind of vigilence, unrelated to any wakefulness save sleep's: insomnia. Madness against madness, then. But he believes that he masters the one by abandoning himself to it; the other frightens him, and is his fear; it tears through him, wounds and exalts him. It is as if he had to undergo all the force of an uninterruptable continuity, a tension at the edge of the insupportable which he speaks of with fear and not without a feeling of glory. For glory is the disaster.
Maurice BlanchotLife is too short to not kick fear in the ass and allow yourself to love again.
Steve MaraboliTags: fear life love relationships loving
Fear waters the weeds of regret.
Steve MaraboliYou were talking about the wind," the Fillyjonk said suddenly. "A wind that carries off your washing. But I'm speaking about cyclones. Typhoons, Gaffsie dear. Tornadoes, whirlwinds, sandstorms... Flood waves that carry houses away... But most of all I'm talking about myself and my fears, even if I know that's not done. I know everything will turn out badly. I think about that all the time. Even while I'm washing my carpet. Do you understand that? Do you feel the same way?
Tove JanssonJesus, who comes across in the Gospels as extraordinarily strong, begged in the garden, with drops of sweat like blood running down his face, that he might be spared the terrible cup ahead of him, the betrayal and abandonment by his friends, death on the cross. Because Jesus cried out in anguish, we may too. But our fear is less frequent and infinitely less if we are close to the Creator. Jesus, having cried out, then let his fear go, and moved on.
Madeleine L'Engle...fear doesn't go away.
Steven PressfieldTags: fear
We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
Steven PressfieldTags: fear resistance conquer conquer-fear
Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not quite coward enough to admire it.
G.K. ChestertonIf you're afraid to defend your convictions because you might get your ass kicked for it, you're not really fit to advocate for them.
James Carlos BlakeTags: fear advocacy convictions
Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.
Steven PressfieldTags: fear resistance
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