What is Fear....

I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears.
- Macbeth in Merchant of Venice

Fear exists not only at the conscious level but deep down at the unconscious level. There is the fear with which we are familiar and to which we have become accustomed. There is also the fear deep down, hidden, concealed. Is it possible to be free of all fear? To understand that, one must understand the whole content of consciousness. Now, you have to understand the fact, not what consciousness is according to somebody...you have to observe.
- J. Krishnamurthi

Fear is an energised negative thought pattern - a programming in the brain - and usually, one is caught in it.
- Anonymous

Anything that is connected with fear, a mature person should disconnect himself from. That´s how maturity comes. Just watch all your acts, all your beliefs, and find out whether they are based in reality, in experience, or based in fear. And anything based in fear has to be dropped immediately without a second thought. It is your armor.
- Osho

If you started on a scavenger hunt today and you were told to bring back a bucket full of fear, you could look forever, but you'd always come back empty handed. Fear simply does not exist out there in the world. It is something that you do to yourself by thinking fearful thoughts and having fearful expectations.
- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Knowledge is the antidote to fear.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A person who is walking around with a chronic core of fear gnawing away at them is vulnerable to illness because fear diminishes the ability of their immune system to function. This is, of course, no great news to Western medical pactitioners who know fully well that fear and disharmony can manifest themselves as illnesses recognizable to modern science.
- Deepak Chopra

I've had many fears - most of which have never happenned.
- A Sage