The Fear Cure Quotes

“Studies show that most emotions last no longer than 90 seconds unless we attach stories to them. You have a feeling of being lonely—and this will pass through you quickly unless you make up a story about how you’re lonely because you’re unlovable and worthless and nobody will ever love you and you’re going to be alone forever. When you attach to the story, you suffer needlessly and the suffering can linger for years. But you don’t have to choose to suffer this way. Your soul can find peace, comfort, and stillness even in the most difficult times if you’re able to view your negative emotions from this witness position.”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

“Courage is not about being fearless; it’s about letting fear transform you so you come into right relationship with uncertainty, make peace with impermanence, and wake up to who you really are.”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

“what price are you paying when you systematically betray your truth, day after day after day?”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

“By letting fear illuminate what’s in need of healing, not just in you, but in your family, you have the potential to heal not only yourself; you can break the chain of generational fear and heal your entire bloodline.”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

“If we’re willing to simply be curious, our true nature starts to reveal itself.”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

“In order to optimize health, the body needs to be in relaxation response the majority of the time so the body’s natural disease-fighting mechanisms can operate properly.”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

“the ones who long to live in alignment with their own Inner Pilot Lights start flocking to you. Your changing vibration attracts your true soul community to you. And as a sort of thank-you for aligning with your true self, the Universe often draws into your life more and more true joy, unconditional love, professional vitality, physical health, and a sense of connection with the Divine. You may lose some, or much, of what makes up your comfort zone. But what you’ll gain when you commit to this journey is priceless. The prize for your commitment is FREEDOM.”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

“Many of the gifts life has to teach us live not in the realm of the certain, but in the uncertain.”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

“people come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. Knowing how to discern the difference is a skill worth acquiring.”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. — THICH NHAT HANH”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

“The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know about the process of life. — FRANZ ALEXANDER, M. D.”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

“If only we’d learned how to harness and ride rather than hunt and kill the butterflies that live in the gut of every person who strives to create something extraordinary from nothing. — JONATHAN FIELDS”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

“The Norwegian researchers concluded that the more frequent mammograms found some invasive breast cancers that would have disappeared if left untreated. In other words, as shocking as this seems, some invasive breast cancers would have spontaneously resolved if they hadn’t been detected first.”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

“A willingness to let life be your teacher requires a certain humility, but we are all capable of becoming learners if we’re willing to not know. Whether you’re the President of the United States or the dean of Harvard or a kindergartener, life can be your teacher, if only you’ll let it. It will tend to point to the places where your craving for certainty has made you the most blind.”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul