Hope and fear cannot alter the season.

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.

Hope and fear cannot alter the season.

Fearlessness is extending ourselves beyond our limited view.

Buddhism doesnt tell you what is false and what is true but it encourages you to find out for yourself.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people dont appreciate themselves.

Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news

Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else it is so sharp precise obvious and direct. If we can open then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.

Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.

Enlightenment is egos ultimate disappointment.

The attainment of enlightenment from egos point of view is extreme death the death of self the death of me and mine the death of the watcher. It is the ultimate and final disappointment.

Habit is formed out of memory... We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh we go back to what weve done in the past... easier for us than fighting our way through foreign territory.

Our life is an endless journey; it is like a broad highway that extends infinitely into the distance. The practice of meditation provides a vehicle to travel on that road. Our journey consists of constant ups and downs

Luxury is experiencing reality.

Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of the microscope is just to clearly present what is there.

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse

It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.

We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

Knight without fear and without reproach.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit so that it looked like I was trying to add something instead of keeping the status quo.

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going.

Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

You've got to be taught to hate and fear.

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.