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1 "Faith can enable a person to receive divine guidance and continue spiritual practice in the face of all kinds of difficulties. Faith is a key to overcoming fear whenever we feel separate and out of touch with the deeper levels of our own being." Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions (Frances Vaughan, Ph.D.)

2 "Fear is due to one's absorption in illusory energy, but when one is free from illusory energy...then he has nothing to fear." Bhagavad-Gita As It Is (A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)

3 "Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imaginal. That is not to say they don't exist for us as human beings, and need to be brought to light in order to be released. But they do not replace the love within us. They are literally a bad dream. It is as though the mind has been split in two, with one part staying in touch with love, and the other part veering into fear. Fear manufactures a kind of parallel universe where the unreal seems more real than the real." A Return to Love, Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles (Marianne Williamson)

4 "Fear…is the great betrayer of Self." A Return to Love, Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles (Marianne Williamson)

5 "We must all come to accept that thought forms of separation and fear – with their inevitably violent results – have no place on this planet anymore; they are too dangerous to the survival of the species." Everyday Grace, Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles (Marianne Williamson)

6 "Whoever recognizes in atman (the Self) the unity of reality is free from fear. For fear arises when there is an other who poses a threat. But atman is knowledge, and for it there is no other that is not already essentially a self. Non-dulaity is freedom from fear." The Unity of Reality (Michael vonBruck)

7 "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)

8 "Fear is the easiest thing in the world: it's cheap and widespread. Tyrants and oppressors count on fear's contagion to dominate others. But if one person steps forward and summons courage, his or her courage becomes equally contagious, spreading to others and becoming a movement." The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion (Wayne Teasdale)

9 "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)

10 "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)

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

12 "Fear…is love's replacement. Fear is both a fragmented and fragmenting emotion." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

13 "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)

14 “Remember the acronym for fear: False Evidence Appearing Real, and stay in love and peace.” Questions and Answers on Conversations With God (Neale Donald Walsch)

15 "The way out of fear is simple. It is to remember – remember what it is you want to feel, what you want to have running through your mind, your emotions and your body. From that level the choices become very simple. Choose what you can do to let those around you sense their innocence, their purity and their beauty, and those very things will grow in you." Reflections of an Elder Brother: Awakening from the Dream (Mary-Margaret Moore)

16 "This is the secret of Krsna [Krishna] consciousness - realization that there is no other existence besides Krsna is the platform of peace and fearlessness." Bhagavad-Gita As It Is (A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)

17 "What's there to be afraid of when you're part of everything? That makes fear being afraid of yourself." Duncton Found (William Horwood)

18 "Wherever there is other, there is fear." The Upanishads The Atman Project (Ken Wilber)

19 "When we are willing to face our fear we may discover that behind the shadows and illusions runs a deep and all-pervading undercurrent of love." Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions (Frances Vaughan, Ph.D.)

20 "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)

21 "Perfect love casts out fear. Perfect love is right within you, ready to be sent forth in ever-widening circles. Learn how to release that perfect love within that casts out fear." Drawing the Larger Circle, How to Love and Be Loved (Jack and Cornelia Addington)

22 "That mind of fearfulness should be put in the cradle of loving-kindness." Shambhala (Chogyam Trungpa)

23 "Walk you the gentle way, and you will fear no evil and no shadows in the night." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

24 "We need to guard ourselves against fear's deadening effect. We must cast it aside…Let us see through our fears and relinquish them to what is possible beyond them. Allow your fear to be deflated by your hope and your unwillingness to be crippled by its hold." The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion (Wayne Teasdale)

25 "Faith and faith's fruit, love, cast out fear. Jesus keeps telling His disciples, 'Fear not, only believe….why are you afraid, O you of little faith?' (Mark 5:36, Matthew 8:26)" Heaven, The Heart's Deepest Longing (Peter Kreeft)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite