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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Fear, Thinking, You Think You Know

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Uplifting, Spiritual, Fear
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.76, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Death, Atheist, Fear
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mary Lutyens (1973). “The second Penguin Krishnamurti reader”

Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Clever, Fear, Men
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, 1961: There Is No Thinker, Only Thought”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

One of the functions of thought is to be occupied all the time with something. Most of us want to have our minds continually occupied so that we are prevented from seeing ourselves as we actually are. We are afraid to be empty. We are afraid to look at our fears.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Time, Fear, Mind
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “On Fear”, p.9, Harper Collins

Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Fear, Desire, Inward
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1984). “Krishnamurti's notebook”, Harper San Francisco

Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Fear, Causes, Problem

You haven't changed. You may say: 'I'm full of love, I'm full of truth, I'm full of knowledge, I'm full of wisdom.' I say: 'That's all nonsense. Do you behave? Are you free of fear? Are you free of ambition, greed, envy and the desire to achieve success in every field? If not, you are just playing a game. You are not serious.'

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Truth, Fear, Ambition
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Allan W. Anderson (1991). “A Wholly Different Way of Living”, p.243, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Fear, Mind, Function
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, 1961: There Is No Thinker, Only Thought”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Fear, Running Away, Suppressing
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1973). “Flight of the Eagle”, HarperCollins Publishers

Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Running, Fear, Ideas

There is always great beauty, not of images, feeling or thought. Beauty is neither thought nor feeling; it has nothing whatsoever to do with emotion or sentiment. There is fear. Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear? It is there and there is no escape from it, no evasion possible. There, at that actual moment, there is total attention at the moment of danger, physical or psychological.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Fear, Inattention, Facts
"Krishnamurti's notebook".

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