Fear always springs from ignorance.
Interpretation
Ignorance breeds fear; understanding can dispel it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote suggests that fear often originates from a lack of knowledge or understanding. When we are ignorant about something, it can lead to anxiety and fear, but gaining knowledge can help alleviate those feelings and empower us to confront our fears with confidence.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.
Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment. It means we stop trying to do the impossible-controlling that which we cannot-and instead, focus on what is possible-which usually means taking care of ourselves. And we do this in gentleness, kindness, and love, as much as possible.
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