Juxtaposed Quotes about Coping with Fear

Juxtaposed Quotes on Coping with Fear

Humanity wants to build a city and a tower reaching all the way up into the heavens so they would not be scattered about across a precarious, unpredictable world, and God wants to sabotage the well-intended project by mixing up the languages so they would end up being scattered about across a precarious, unpredictable world – exactly what they’d been afraid of in the first place. The lesson was an important one:

If we expend too much time and energy avoiding what we fear, we will only further the realization of what we fear.

--Rabbi Gershon Winkler, explaining a lesson from the Tower of Babel story

Fear invites danger.

--Swami Rama

I know a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty than they’ve been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

--Robert Bly