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Fear Is The Mind-Killer
“I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”-Bene Gesserit, From the Dune series by Frank Herbert
Fear. It is the emotion that characterizes the age.
We all experience it every day. Some folks do everything in their power to pretend that they don’t. But they do. We all do. It is a natural human reaction to threats.
We live in a time where death and disease seems to be around every corner. But are these times that different then 100 or 1,000 years ago? People rail against vaccines and lock-downs even though we have experienced something like this in many forms down throughout the modern age. We must begin to understand history better in order to face our fears. Living in denial is living within the confines of fear. Living in a pretend world is living within the confines of fear. Living in anger is living in the confines of…
