"In order to experience fearlessness, it is necessary to experience fear. The essence of cowardice is not acknowledging the reality of fear." – Chogyam Trungpa

"Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die" – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I will abandon all fear and terror. . . Now that I have reached this crucial point, I will not fear the peaceful and wrathful deities that arise from the nature of my very own mind." – Tibetan Book of the Dead

"Fear was the first thing on earth to make gods." – Lucretius