"Come to the edge," he said. They said, "We are afraid." "Come to the edge," He said. They came. He pushed them, and they flew. (Guillaume Apollinaire, 1880-1918 Italian-born French Poet Critic)

Love is the only response that undoes fear. If you don't believe this, try it. Love any person or situation that evokes fear in you and the fear will disappear. This is true, not so much because love is an antidote to fear, but because fear is the absence of love. It therefore cannot exist whenever love is present. (The Christ Mind through Paul Ferrini) - www.paulferrini.com

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

When you start to build self-worth and redeem your magnificence, the fears go away... you void your fears via your realization of your own self-worth. (Kryon through Lee Carroll) - www.kryon.com (Source: Sedona Journal of Emergence - February 2003) - www.sedonajournal.com

Continuing to cling to the patterns you know, inhibits your ability to discover what you don't know. (Eric Allenbaugh)

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety. (Abraham Maslow)

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror. (Doug Horton)

Feel the fear and do it anyway. (Susan Jeffers, American Author Speaker)

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson. (Roger Craig, American Football Player)

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. (Lady Bird Johnson)

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him. (Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962 American First Lady Columnist Lecturer Humanitarian)

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. (Robert H. Schuller, 1926 American Minister (Crystal Cathedral) Author Social Leader)

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. (Publilius Syrus, 1st Century BC Roman Writer)

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will. (Unknown)

All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward. (Unknown)

Action conquers fear. (Peter Nivio Zarlenga, American Businessman Founder of Blockbuster Videos)

Do the thing you fear and the fear will disappear. (David J. Schwartz, American Trainer Author of The Magic of Thinking Big)

If you are feeling unsettled, shaky, vulnerable and tetchy and you don't know why, then visit your heart beloved because in there you will find a fear quietly sitting. And it is not until you uncover this fear that you will be able to move forward once more. Fence-sitting won't work anymore either, so you will either take courage and move on through this or you will leave the ascension process completely for the point of no return has been reached. Earth must now move forward on her timed schedule and can wait for no man. (Susanna Thorpe-Clark) www.hotkey.net.au/~korton

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. (Vincent Van Gogh)

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. (Anais Nin)

Within each of us is a hidden store of energy. Energy we can release to compete in the marathon of life. Within each of us is a hidden store of courage. Courage to give us the strength to face any challenge. Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost. (Roger Dawson - The 13 Secrets of Power Performance)

Don't let yourself be paralyzed by fear, which prevents so many people from living out their dreams. (Mark Fisher)

For caring people like yourselves, it can get very difficult to avoid getting caught up in the drama, so detach. If you have to unplug the television set, do that. Put your time and energy into those things that nourish you, that bring you peace, and let your love flow. Polarization and resistance are two things that will greatly increase your discomfort, so we give you this simple exercise to do when you discover yourself getting caught up in the drama and chaos:

Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, just close your eyes and focus on your breath. Obviously, if you are driving a car or operating machinery, you don't want to do this until you have pulled off the road or stopped the machine, but even then, as soon as you can, disconnect from what "hooked" you and got you caught up in the drama. Close your eyes and focus on your breath. Deliberately take slow, deep breaths until you have regained a sense of your own self and are calm, grounded, and centered. Then very slowly open your eyes again and let yourself remain calm, grounded, and centered. Allow yourself to witness what is going on around you - without getting caught up in it. If you find yourself getting "hooked" again, repeat the exercise. You may have to do this several times, but do it...

Deepening your breathing is telling yourself that you are choosing calm over chaos. It is like a message to your body, "calm down." In the times ahead, it will be very important to remain calm, grounded, and centered. There is nothing you can't handle if you remain rooted in the moment. We have spoken before about remaining rooted in the moment that is presenting, in what is also called the NOW. On Terra you will live in the NOW all of the time, so this is good practice for you… even when you are in the midst of a challenging time, you can remain rooted in the moment and thus move through it with Grace. The more you can detach - the more you can ALLOW THE MOVEMENT - the more ease and comfort you will have in your journey through the days ahead. Resistance of any kind blocks the flow. You can remain rooted in your truth without resisting the flow that occurs all around you. Think of a tree with a stream flowing around it. The tree remains in place when it is rooted and grounded. Be that tree. This is not the same as stubbornness or resistance. Be rooted in the moment. Be rooted in your truth.

Keep your "inner ear" turned on and listening at all times. It helps to trust the flow of your life. If you feel overwhelmed by the speed of everything, just let it flow. Become still in the midst of the movement that is going on all around you. Let it flow. You are a great being, experiencing yourself as a little body. You are a great being who has helped create vast portions of the existing reality. Breathe. Center. Ground. Bring calm to yourself as a choice. Choose calm. Choose peace. Choose serenity…

In surrendering to the Will of the Creator, you actually create greater freedom for yourself because then you simply have to follow the flow of your life, instead of remaining locked into the limited possibilities of what you can imagine while still in the veiled state of consciousness. You open up the portals for more to appear in your life that would have been considered miraculous or magical when measured in your formerly limited view. In the state of giving up resistance to the flow of your life, you are moving out of fear into a state of Grace. You are surrendering your need to control everything in order to keep your fear at bay. You are moving more into acceptance and trust in the plan for your life. (Operation Terra) - www.operationterra.com

The breath will serve as the most powerful tool to transmute emotion, to remain in the center of our beings, and to be in a state of grace through the most difficult of times. (Unknown)

If you can remember to breathe deeply and stay in the present moment and keep letting go of all your ideas about reality, you will have an easier time during the ascent home. (Unknown)

When in a state of fear, the breath shortens and becomes shallow. By breathing long and deep breathes we release our fear. (Unknown)

Our breath is the essence of who we really are, as we become in tune with our breath, this breath becomes the vehicle, which transfoms us and takes us to that beautiful place within inside ourselves, an open door to all densities. (Meditatek)

Chosing to stay in the moment, is choosing to be free from fear. (Dean Fraser)

The best way to neutralise fear is by laughing. You can see the dynamics of this in action when people watch a horror movie. You'll notice that immediately after a good fright, following the sceams of terror - which is the point of maximum experience of fear - people will always laugh immediately afterward, as this is the natural way to release the fear. By laughing at something you also take away the perception that it has any power over you. (Dean Fraser)

...there is definitely not enough laughter because that indeed is the grand healer. (Ptaah through Jani King) - www.ptaah.com

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. (Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955 American Author Trainer)

The only way to go beyond your fears is to grow beyond them and that always means challenging, overcoming and learning from them. (Dean Fraser)

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it. (Arthur Ashe, 1943-1993 African-American Tennis Player)

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. (Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955 American Author Trainer)

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882 American Poet Essayist)

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear. (Maxwell Maltz, American Plastic Surgeon Author of Psycho-Cybernetics)

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. (Henry Ford, 1863-1947 American Industrialist Founder of Ford Motor Company)

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. (Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955 American Author Trainer)

I came here to remind the world that fear is a state of mind. If I could take away the fear of death from each of you, if I could take away the fear of being poor, if I could take away the fear of no relationship or the wrong relationship; and if you would honor the relationship you already have, if you would honor the amount of money that you have for whatever you need, if you would honor the fact that you cannot fear death because death does not exist - I would then have a group of Lightworkers that could span the world in a matter of days, and they would take their light into the world so powerfully that there would be no wars as to who has the better God. We would eradicate fear, my friends. (Kirael through Rev. Fred Sterling) - www.inward.com/KSR/index.html