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Fear

Thought creates fear
There is fear of the present, of the future, fear of death, fear of the unknown, fear of not fulfilling, fear of not being loved—there are so many fears, all created by the machinery of thought.
—KRISHNAMURTI
From the book The Awakening of Intelligence
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So thought sustains and gives nourishment to pleasure as well as to fear. Thought is responsible for this. There is fear of the present, of the future, fear of death, fear of the unknown, fear of not fulfilling, fear of not being loved, wanting to be loved—there are so many fears, all created by the machinery of thought. So there is the rationality of thought and the irrationality of thought.

We fear the known coming to an end
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
—KRISHNAMURTI
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Fear is only in relation to something
Fear can exist only in relationship; fear cannot exist by itself, in isolation.
—KRISHNAMURTI
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The effort to become is the beginning of fear, the fear of being or not being. The mind, the residue of experience, is always in fear of the unnamed, the challenge. The mind, which is name, word, memory, can function only within the field of the known; and the unknown, which is challenge from moment to moment, is resisted or translated by the mind in terms of the known. This resistance or translation of the challenge is fear; for the mind can have no communion with the unknown. The known cannot commune with the unknown; the known must cease for the unknown to be.

Fear creates barriers
Fear twists our ideas and makes crooked the ways of our life; it creates barriers between people, and it certainly destroys love.
—KRISHNAMURTI
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Fear is an extraordinary jewel
Fear is an extraordinary jewel which has dominated human beings. If you can hold it and look at it, one begins to see the ending of it.
—KRISHNAMURTI
Krishnamurti at Brockwood Park 1984, Talk 2
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