Fear Quotes

“Rather than putting your energy into being special, put your whole energy into being yourself. Just find yourself, because in trying to be special you are running further and further away from yourself.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“Go into your fear. Silently enter into it, so you can find its depth. And sometimes it happens that it is not very deep.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“Each moment, whatsoever you are doing, do it totally. Simple things—taking a bath; take it totally, forget the whole world; sitting, sit; walking, walk, above all don’t wobble; sit under the shower and let the whole existence fall on you. Be merged with those beautiful drops of water falling on you. Small things: cleaning the house, preparing food, washing clothes, going for a morning walk—do them totally, then there is no need for any meditation.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“Fear is always around some desire. You want to become a famous man, the most famous man in the world- then there is fear. What if you cannot make it? Fear comes. You want to become the richest man in the world. What if you don't succeed? You start trembling; fear comes. You want to possess a woman and you are afraid that tomorrow you may not be able to hold on to her, she may go to somebody else.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“Live more, and live more intensely . Live dangerously. It is your life, don't sacrifice it for any sort of foolishness that has been taught to you. It is your life, live it. Don't sacrifice it for words, theories, countries, politics. Don't sacrifice it for anybody.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“Move within, but don’t move the way fear makes you move”—it is so beautiful. Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move—not out of fear,”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“Mystery will control you, knowledge will make you the controller. Mystery will possess you. You cannot possess the mysterious; it is so vast and your hands are so small. It is so infinite, you cannot possess it, you will have to be possessed by it—and that is the fear. Knowledge you can possess, it is so trivial; knowledge you can control. This temptation of the mind to reduce every wonder, every mystery, to a question, is basically fear-oriented. We are afraid, afraid of the tremendousness of life, of this incredible existence. We are afraid. Out of fear we create some small knowledge around ourselves as a protection, as an armor, as a defense. It is only cowards who reduce the tremendously valuable capacity of wondering to questions. The really brave, the courageous person, leaves it as it is. Rather than changing it into a question, he jumps into the mystery. Rather than trying to control it, he allows the mystery to possess him. And the joy of being possessed, and the benediction of being possessed, is invaluable. You cannot imagine what it is, you have never dreamt about it—because to be possessed by the mystery is to be possessed by the whole.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“For fifteen days, the first thing in the morning, get up with a great enthusiasm—“godliness within”—with a decision that today you are going to really live with great delight. And then start living with great delight! Have your breakfast, but eat it as if you are eating god himself; it becomes a sacrament. Take your bath, but godliness is within you; you are giving a bath to god. Then your small bathroom becomes a temple and the water showering on you is a baptism. Get up every morning with a great decision, a certainty, a clarity, a promise to yourself that today is going to be tremendously beautiful and you are going to live it tremendously. And each night when you go to bed, remember again how many beautiful things have happened today. Just the remembrance helps them to come back again tomorrow. Just remember and then fall asleep remembering those beautiful moments that happened today. Your dreams will be more beautiful. They will carry your enthusiasm, your totality, and you will start living in dreams also, with a new energy.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“Just a little sense of humor, a little laughter, a childlike innocence—and what have you got to lose? What is the fear? We don’t have anything. We have come without anything, we will go without anything. Before it happens, just a little adventure inward to see who is this fellow hiding behind the clothes, inside the skeleton; who is this person who is born, becomes a youth, falls in love and one day dies and nobody knows where he goes.… Just a little curiosity to inquire into one’s own being. It is very natural; there is no question of fear.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“Fear is always about something in the future. Fear never exists in the present moment.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“You have come alone into the world. You have been here yesterday too, without this person, and you were doing perfectly well, without any knots in the stomach. Tomorrow, if this person goes... what is the need of the knots? You already know how to be without the person, and you will be able to be alone again.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“This false ego, which you have created by not looking in, by continuously looking out, is the root cause of fear. You will be afraid of all those spaces in which you have to look. You will be afraid of beauty because beauty simply throws you within. A beautiful sunset, and all those luminous colors in the clouds, and you will be afraid to look at it because such great beauty is bound to throw you inside yourself. Such great beauty stops your thinking: For a moment the mind is in such awe, it forgets how to think, how to go on spinning and weaving. The inner talk comes to a stop, a halt, and you are suddenly in. People are afraid of great music, people are afraid of great poetry, people are afraid of deep intimacy. People’s love affairs are just hit-and-run affairs. They don’t go deep into each other’s being because going deep into each other’s being, the fear is there—the other’s pool of being will reflect you. In that pool, in that mirror of the other’s being, if you are not found, if the mirror remains empty, if it reflects nothing, then what?”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“People have been trying to destroy fear, trying to destroy anger, trying to destroy sexuality, trying to destroy greed, this and that. The whole world has been working to destroy your energies, and what is the result? Man has become a mess. Nothing is destroyed, all is still there; only things have become confused. There is no need to destroy anything because nothing can be destroyed in the first place.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“Nothing is ever born out of fear. Love gives birth, love is creative; fear is impotent. It has never created anything. It cannot create anything because it has no substance. But it can destroy your whole life, it can surround you like a dark cloud, it can exploit all of your energies. It will not allow you to move into any deep experience of beauty.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“And live in total freedom so intensely that every moment is transformed into eternity. If you live a moment intensely it is transformed into eternity.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“A person is a freedom. A person is beautiful because of freedom. The bird is beautiful on the wing in the sky—you encage it and it is no longer the same bird, remember.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“And remember, the proverb that says that the empty mind is the devil’s workshop is just nonsense. Just the opposite is the truth—the occupied mind is the devil’s workshop. The empty mind is God’s workshop, not the devil’s. But you have to understand what I mean by “empty”—at leisure, relaxed, not tense, not moving, not desiring, not going anywhere. Just being here, utterly here. An empty mind is a pure presence. And all is possible in that pure presence, because the whole existence comes out of that pure presence.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“The fear of death is fear of time, and the fear of time is, deeply, the fear of unlived moments, an unlived life. So what to do? Live more, and live more intensely. Live dangerously! It is your life, don’t sacrifice it for any sort of foolishness that has been taught to you. It is your life, live it. Don’t sacrifice it for words, theories, countries, politics. Don’t sacrifice it for anybody.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“All your fears are byproducts of identification. You love a person and with the love, in the same parcel, comes fear- the person may leave you.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“A mature person should disconnect himself from anything that is connected with fear. That’s how maturity comes.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“I don’t see the point in being afraid of death, because in the first place I don’t know what is going to be. And secondly, there are only two possibilities: Either I will survive—then there is no question of fear. Or I will not survive—then too there is no problem of fear. If I don’t survive there is no problem—when I am not, there cannot be any problem, and if I survive as I am here, if my consciousness survives, there is no problem because I am still there. “Problems were there in life also—I solved them, so if I am there and there are problems I will solve them—and it is always a joy to solve a problem, it gives a challenge. You take the challenge and you move into it, and when you solve it a great release of happiness happens.” The fear of”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“Reality never comes as a problem; it is only the ideas about reality that create the problem. So the first thing to be understood is that if you can dissolve the psychological pain, no problem is left. Then you start living in the moment.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“Meditation is nothing but a way to learn how to do a thing totally—once you have learned, make your whole life a meditation; forget all about meditations, let the life be the only law, let the life be the only meditation. And then time disappears.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“So don’t pay much attention to fear, because that is dangerous. If you pay much attention to fear you are feeding it, and it will grow. Turn your back to the fear and move toward love.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“Love is a ripple in the heart, a vibration in the heart, a throbbing, a sharing of whatsoever you are, a deep, intense urge to go and reach the other, to share your being and your delight and your song.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“Worry is a way to fill the empty space of the future.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“Meditation is when you are not doing anything at all, when the mind is not functioning at all. That nonfunctioning of the mind is meditation—no chanting, no mantra, no image, no concentration. One just simply is. In that isness, the ego disappears, and with the ego the shadow of the ego disappears.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“No therapy is complete without meditation, because only meditation can give him his lost roots, his strength of being an individual. There is nothing to fear.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“You are alone and you are unique. You never were before, you never will be again. You are beautiful! Accept it, and whatsoever happens, allow it to happen and pass through it.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“Then it dies; it doesn’t cling. A clinging rose flower will be ugly; only human beings become that ugly. When the time comes the flower simply dies and disappears into the earth from where it came. There is no external security, no internal security. Insecurity is the very stuff that life is made of.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life