Without fear, I die but once.” The fight against fear “I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. A mantra of the City of Introspection went like this: It seems to me most strange that men should fear seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”Īn ancient form of the litany existed already during the Butlerian Jihad. “A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It’s not just in some of us it’s in everyone.Īnd as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.Īs we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”Īnother litany of fear is a phrase that derives from the William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. We are all meant to shine, as children do. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. Your playing small does not serve the world. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. ![]() The Litany of Fear incantation is given as follows: It streamlines their vision, focussing on what matters, and overriding that which does not. The litany against fear, is an incantation that is used by the Bene Gesserit, throughout the series that is they used to focus and calm themselves in times of peril. In the whole Dune series, the Bene Gesserit are an ancient and powerful order of women, who are both a source of learning as well as leadership. The book teaches one to transcend the most potent human limitation, that of fear. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. ![]() The quote, ‘fear is the mind killer’ is a part of a bigger quotation from Frank Herbert’s book Dune. ![]() Further, it moves on to discuss the ill effects of fear. This article discusses where the blog comes from, the litany of fear, and other quotes related to fear. In this blog we will look at the quote, “fear is the mind killer”.
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