Fear Quotes

“Then the day of your birth arrived. Everything felt different around you, and you were thrust into a new environment. You felt cold and hunger for the first time. Sounds were too loud; lights were too bright. For the first time, you felt afraid. This is original fear.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“We should live every day like people who have just been rescued from dying on the moon. We are on Earth now, and we need to enjoy walking on this precious, beautiful planet. Zen Master Linji said, “The miracle is not to walk on water or fire. The miracle is to walk on the earth.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: A Powerful Guide to Overcoming Uncertainties and Personal Terrors, and Finding Peace and Freedom from Anxiety, by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh

“El mundo necesita nuestra felicidad.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Miedo

“El único modo de liberarnos del miedo y ser realmente felices consiste en reconocerlo y ver profundamente en su fuente. Dejemos de querer escapar del miedo, permitamos que aflore en nuestra conciencia y mirémoslo directa y fijamente a los ojos.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Miedo

“Zen Master Linji said, “The miracle is not to walk on water or fire. The miracle is to walk on the earth.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“Buddha said, “The past no longer is, the future is not yet here; there is only one moment in which life is available, and that is the present moment.” To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“The miracle is not to walk on water or fire. The miracle is to walk on the earth.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“When conditions are sufficient, we manifest in a particular way. When conditions are no longer sufficient, we no longer manifest in that way. This doesn’t mean that we don’t exist. If we’re afraid of death, it’s because we don’t understand that things do not really die.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“This is the practice of nonviolence with your worries, fear, and anger. If you get angry with your anger, it is multiplied ten times.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“It is in moments like this that we stick to our mindful breathing and gently recognize our afflictions, whether anger, frustration, or fear. Suppose we are feeling worry or anxiety. We practice, “Breathing in, I know that anxiety is in me. Breathing out, I smile to my anxiety.” Maybe you have a habit of worrying. Even if you know it’s neither necessary nor useful, you still worry. You’d like to ban worry and get rid of it, because you know that when you worry you can’t get in touch with the wonders of life and you can’t be happy. So you get angry at your worry; you don’t want it. But worry is a part of you, and that’s why when your worry comes up, you have to know how to handle it tenderly and peacefully. You can do it if you have the energy of mindfulness. You cultivate the energy of mindfulness with mindful breathing and mindful walking, and with that energy, you can recognize and tenderly embrace your worry, fear, and anger. When your baby suffers and cries, you don’t want to punish him or her, because your baby is you. Your fear and anger are like your baby. Don’t imagine that you can just throw them out the window. Don’t be violent toward your anger, your fear, and your worries.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“nature is truly the nature of no-birth, no-death. There is manifestation, and there is the cessation of manifestation in order to have another manifestation.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“If we can’t let go, we will suffer not only on the day when we’re finally forced to do so, but right now today and every day in between, because fear will be constantly stalking us.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“There is a film, an image stored in your consciousness. Every time your mind goes back to the past and you look at that image or watch that film, you suffer again.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“I stopped committing acts that cause suffering to other living beings. All living beings want to live. All fear death. We must nurture a heart of compassion and protect the lives of all beings.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“We may think that if we ignore our fears, they’ll go away. But if we bury worries and anxieties in our consciousness, they continue to affect us and bring us more sorrow”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“We have to learn to build safety with our in-breath and our out-breath. We have to learn to build safety with our steps, with our way of acting and reacting, with our words and our efforts to build communication.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“When you turn on the television, it may not be because there’s a fascinating program you want to see; it’s because you’re afraid of being alone with yourself.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“if you like to spend a lot of your time at a café, it may not be because that particular café is so interesting. It may be because you’re afraid of being alone; you feel that you always have to be with other people. When you turn on the television, it may not be because there’s a fascinating program you want to see; it’s because you’re afraid of being alone with yourself.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“Often we either don’t plan at all, or we get caught up in obsessive planning because we fear the future and its uncertainty.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“Only by looking deeply into the nature of your fear can you find the way out.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“it is always possible to practice “I have arrived, I am home.” I have run all my life; I am not going to run anymore; now I am determined to stop and really live my life. When”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“So the place where you should look for the kingdom of God or the Pure Land of the Buddha, the place where you should look for your happiness, your peace, and your fulfillment, has to be in the present moment. It’s so simple and clear. But since we have the tendency to slide back into the past or to run into the future, we have to recognize that habit and learn how to be free from it to really establish ourselves in the present moment. When”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“El quinto recuerdo nos indica que lo único que sigue con nosotros al morir son nuestros pensamientos, nuestras palabras y nuestras acciones, es decir, nuestro karma.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, Miedo

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― Thích Nhất Hạnh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

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― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through The Storm

“the future you constantly worry about is nothing other than a projection of fear and desire from the past.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through The Storm

“If you’re afraid of what other people might think of you, it comes from that same place. You’re afraid that if others think negatively about you, they won’t accept you and you’ll be left all alone, in danger. So if you need others to always think well of you, that is a continuation of that same original fear.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through The Storm

“The first part of looking at our fear is just inviting it into our awareness without judgment. We just acknowledge gently that it is there. This brings a lot of relief already. Then, once our fear has calmed down, we can embrace it tenderly and look deeply into its roots, its sources. Understanding the origins of our anxieties and fears will help us let go of them.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through The Storm

“When we understand that we are more than our physical bodies, that we didn’t come from nothingness and will not disappear into nothingness, we are liberated from fear.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through The Storm

“To sincerely accept others as they are, we must begin with ourselves. If we cannot accept ourselves as we are, we will never be able to accept others.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through The Storm