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1		"Fear of a thing prevents us from seeing it properly." How To Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation (Rudolf Steiner)

2		"Perfect Love casts out all fear and all torment that fear begets." Saint Germain on Alchemy (Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Prophet)

3		"The choices you make are always and only motivated by either faith or fear." Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul (Caroline Myss)

4		"When we are afraid of ourselves and afraid of the seeming threat the world presents, then we become extremely selfish." Shambhala (Chogyam Trungpa)

5		"The universe is a great system of vibrations we draw to us by our feelings: fear draws fear, love draws love." Lynne Sharon Schwartz, novelist, 'Fatigue Artist' Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)

6		"Truly, when a person discovers a foundation of fearlessness in the Self, in that which is invisible, formless, unlimited, and self-sufficient, then has he found true fearlessness." Taitiriya Upanishad The Upanishads, selections translated by Alistair Shearer and Peter Russell (Alistair Shearer and Peter Russell, translators)

7		"We must become accustomed to cultivate fearlessness; a fearlessness that prepares us to face everything we encounter, and to come to terms with whatever the future might bring." Lectures on the I Ching: Constancy and Change (Richard Wilhelm)

8		"What is this perfect love which casts out all fear? Why, it is simply living in that part of our own self which is universal. It is becoming allied with the divine. Therein lies perfect peace, perfect harmony." Wind of the Spirit (G. dePurucker)

9		"Faith is said to drive out fear, and so does love. And the Father-Creator of all watches over even the sparrow falling from the nest, so there is no need to fear." Wrestling with the Prophets, Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life (Matthew Fox)

10		"As you begin to realize that God is lovingly in charge of your life, you may also understand that there is really nothing to fear." Worldwide Laws of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles (John Marks Templeton)

11		"Only absorption in the loving and knowing of the divine Ground can rid it [the mind] of all fear." The Perennial Philosophy (Aldous Huxley)

12		"Without love, there is only fear." Pearl S. Buck Born For Love: Reflections on Loving (Leo F. Buscaglia, Ph.D.)

13		"All fear is a sign of want of faith." Mohandes Gandhi (1869-1948), Hindu national leader, 'Letters From Bapu' The Great Thoughts (George Seldes, compiler)

14		"If we can learn to understand the universe from within, to feel our unity with it, we shall no longer need the instinctive reactions of fear or aggression, and the whole face of civilization will change." The Transforming Mind (Laurence and Phoebe Bendit)

15		"If God can be found in all things, then there is nothing at all that can happen to us that we need fear." Margaret Hebblethwaite, theologian and spiritual writer The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

16		"Love opens the interiors of the mind; but fear closes them." Emanuel Swedenborg A Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg (Samuel M. Warren, compiler)

17		"Fear melts away when we refuse to affirm its ultimate reality. When we see beyond fear, it dissolves." Everyday Grace, Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles (Marianne Williamson)

18		"Love and fear are mutually exclusive." Tomorrow's God, Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge (Neale Donald Walsch)

19		“Freedom from fear is contact with the Source.” Mary Within (David Richo)

20		"In the many roles I've played in my life, in the many things I've done, the common thread I had to transcend was the invisible boundary of fear within me. When I felt this fear, I felt shrunken, condensed, and bound. It was only when I broke the boundary of this fear that I suddenly found that there was nothing to it – this fear was a result of my own thinking. When I broke the boundary of this fear and looked back at it, it was like seeing a shadow disappear." Edgar D. Mitchell, Ph.D., sixth person to walk on the moon, 'The Final Frontier: From Outer Space to Inner Space' Experiencing the Soul (Eliot Jay Rosen, editor)

21		"Perception cannot obey two masters, each asking for messages of different things in different languages. What fear would feed upon, love overlooks. What fear demands, love cannot even see." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

22		"To fear love is to fear life." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), British mathematician, philosopher, 'Marriage and Morals' The Great Thoughts (George Seldes, compiler)

23		"Perhaps you feel that having an intimate relationship with the Divine is beyond you, reserved for others….This is not so. It is part of our heritage; it is yours and mind to have. All we need do is learn how to let go of our fear, for fear maintains the barriers of separation." God Is A Verb, Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism (Rabbi David A. Cooper)

24		"As the Upanishads put it, 'Wherever there is other, there is fear." Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber (Ken Wilber)

25		"Light is so much more powerful that the dark can't keep us down unless we allow it to with our fears." Terry Lynn Taylor Angels: The Mysterious Messengers (Rex Hauck, editor)