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

2		"If one knows oneself not as the individual but as the supreme Self, one becomes free from fear." Shankara (788-820), Indian seer, 'Meditations' The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)

3		"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)

4		"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)

5		"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)

6		"Each of us has an inner room where we can visit to be cleansed of fear-based thoughts and feelings. This room, the holy of holies, is a sanctuary of spiritual light." Everyday Grace, Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles (Marianne Williamson)

7		"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)

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

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

10		"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)

11		"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)

12		"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)

13		"Fear is something of our making, and it paralyses us and renders us stupid." The Finding of the Third Eye (Vera Stanley Alder)

14		"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)

15		"We must see with total clarity that what is not love is fear. And we must understand that every negative emotion therefore derives from fear." Everyday Grace, Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles (Marianne Williamson)

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

17		"We can lay aside our fears in order to perceive the safety and beauty that lies within our knowing." Spirit Guides (Iris Belhayes)

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

19		"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)

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

21		"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)

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

23		"There are only two energies at the core of the human experience: love and fear. Love grants freedom, fear takes it away. Love opens up, fear closes down. Love invites full expression, fear punishes it." Communion with God (Neale Donald Walsch)

24		"When fear is expressed, we recognize it as anger, abuse, disease, pain, greed, addiction, selfishness, obsession, corruption, violence, and war." A Return to Love, Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles (Marianne Williamson)

25		"Through all the contraries of phenomenality the Uncreate-Imperishable remains, and there is nothing to fear." Hero With A Thousand Faces (Joseph Campbell)