Fearvana Quotes

“All of it vanished into the night—the fear, dread, doubt—everything. The awareness of my mortality dissipated with the intensity of the experience. Chaos became calm. Time became eternal. Immersed in the now, all sense of past and future disappeared. The mountain overpowered me in every way, yet I felt more in control of my fate than ever before. Here on this glistening glacier, with the countless number of unknowns ahead, nothing else mattered but the next step. The unknowns lost their influence over me. My entire world narrowed down to the few inches in front of me. I controlled what I would do within those inches.”
― Akshay Nanavati, Fearvana: The Revolutionary Science of How to Turn Fear into Health, Wealth and Happiness

“The only support I could count on had to come from within. I relished the idea of facing a new limit. It also scared me to death. I would be on the mountain for less than twenty-four hours, but that was more than enough time to send me to my grave if I lost focus.”
― Akshay Nanavati, Fearvana: The Revolutionary Science of How to Turn Fear into Health, Wealth and Happiness

“People often feel like the external reality determines our level of suffering, but as you have seen, none of those outside forces matter. What we do inside our minds, the conversation we have with ourselves, that is what shapes our reality. Our mindset determines how much we suffer. You have the power and the freedom to choose how you interpret your world. That interpretation will control the quality of your life. If you don’t exercise this freedom, your brain will create its own interpretations without your awareness.”
― Akshay Nanavati, Fearvana: The Revolutionary Science of How to Turn Fear into Health, Wealth and Happiness

“If you don’t choose a worthy struggle, struggle will choose you. And when it does, it will do far worse damage than the pain you will inevitably feel on the journey to greatness.”
― Akshay Nanavati, Fearvana: The Revolutionary Science of How to Turn Fear into Health, Wealth and Happiness

“The mind is the machine that controls everything in your world. How you respond to any event and how you navigate the obstacles standing in your way is all dependent on your ability to direct your mind—instead of it directing you.”
― Akshay Nanavati, Fearvana: The Revolutionary Science of How to Turn Fear into Health, Wealth and Happiness

“Every time we explicitly recall a memory, we are not remembering the event itself, but the last time we remembered that event.”
― Akshay Nanavati, Fearvana: The Revolutionary Science of How to Turn Fear into Health, Wealth and Happiness