Unknown Fear

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
―    J.K. Rowling
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On This Day In:
2015	Something Pagan
2014	A Note To Self
2013	Determining Our Degree Of Freedom
2012	Journalism And Fantasy
	Known Knowns
	Jerk, n.
2011	Love Questions

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Are You Waiting?

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.
―     Morris L. West
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On This Day In:
2015	The Future Myth
2014	Hands
2013	Because You Have Lived
2012	47%
2011	Conservative Values: Low And Lax
2010	A Non-Zero Sum Game
	What If “c” Isn’t A Constant?
2009	Pictures from UCLA trip…

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Potential Is A Heavy Burden

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
―    Søren Kierkegaard
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On This Day In:
2014	Fear Not, Weep Not
2013	Half Way There
2012	Sacrificed Any Lately?
2011	The Value Of One’s Character
2010	Intervals
	On Being Human
	Non-predictive Emergence
	Events
	Bodily Functions
	Standing Thoughts
	Sent Home Is Better Than Fixed

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Even If It Kills Us Slowly

Human beings are funny.  They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly.  Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear.  Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned.  But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.
—    Sigmund Freud
[Found at one of the blogs I follow:  http://antryump.com/
The specific post is found at:  http://antryump.com/2014/08/31/sigmund-freud-quotes/
—    KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2014	Fun To Play God
	Of Anything
2013	Legal (Almost)
2012	Great Scots!
2011	The GI Bill – A Simple History Lesson
	Breaking Even

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We Are Not A Fearful Nation!

For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
—   John F. Kennedy
From his speech:  “Remarks on the 20th Anniversary of the Voice of America“
26 February 1962
[Sometimes I wonder…     —    KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2013	Risking Truth
2012	Working On Reality
2011	Massive Contradictory Changes

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Fearful Light

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?
—    Maurice Freehill
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On This Day In:
2013	Unexpectedly Knowledgeable
2012	Seems Obvious
2011	See The Specialist

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Love Light

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
—    Sarah Williams
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On This Day In:
2013	Nothing Ridiculous
2012	Keeping Faith
2011	Summon Us, Don’t Criticize Us
2010	Obama’s Wars – Book Review
	Game Two – Hearbreaking Loss

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Serve The World

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.  We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?  Actually, who are you not to be?  You are a child of God.  Your playing small does not serve the world.  There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.  We are all meant to shine, as children do.  We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.  It’s not just in some of us;  it’s in everyone.  And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.  As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
—    Marianne Williamson
[From one of the blogs I follow:   http://365daymiracles.com
The specific posting is at:  http://365daymiracles.com/2013/08/15/vulnerability-shedding-your-skin/
—    KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2012	Acquaintance, n.
2011	On Why His Father Was A Great Teacher
	A Baker’s Dozen

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Voices In The Dark

Apart from how interesting he is to read of, the boogeyman is someone we all know.  We’ve all been afraid.  Whether of the real person who haunts you or the voice in the dark that murmurs you’re not good enough.
[Found at a blog I follow:  http://aholisticjourney.wordpress.com/
The specific post is:  http://aholisticjourney.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/the-writing-process-ii-why-we-read-part-4/
—    KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2012	Does Uncommonly Flexible = Flip-Flopping?
2011	A Modest Review Of A Modern Day Classic
	Encouragement Is The Path To Immortality

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Hobgoblins

Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes;  the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.  Wars are no longer waged by the will of superior men, capable of judging dispassionately and intelligently the causes behind them and the effects flowing out of them.  They are now begun by first throwing a mob into a panic;  they are ended only when it has spent its ferine fury.
―     H. L. Mencken
From his book:  “In Defense Of Women“
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On This Day In:
2012	Got Sleep?
2011	Not Another Barren Corner

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Our Biggest Fear

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
—    Miguel Ruiz
[This quote was found on a blog I follow: http://responsiveuniverse.wordpress.com/
The original posting can be found at:  http://responsiveuniverse.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/roger-ebert-i-do-not-fear-death/
Please visit the original site and enjoy!    —    KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2012	Brain, n.
2011	Styles Of Leadership
2010	Face Front!

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Deep Regions

The deepest thing in our nature is this dumb region of the heart, in which we dwell alone with our faiths and our fears.
—    William James
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Sustained Fear

Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it.
—    William Faulkner
From his acceptance speech for the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature
[Is the fear of our time “the terrorist” who might blow us up or is it a lack of hope in a future where the very rich (without meaningful employment) rule the masses of the poor (without gainful employment)?    —     KMAB]
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Still And Too Often

Too often fear has been used to keep us apart.  It’s the fear of the unknown.  That’s what segregation created and built up over time.  We spent so much time hating each other that we never stopped to realize that most black people and white people just want the same things in life.
Now that we’re no longer legally separated by race, we’re separated by money.  So we still don’t live together;  we still don’t get to see the best qualities we each have to offer.
—    Charles Barkley
From his book:  “Who’s Afraid Of A Large Black Man?“
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Nothing Feared Today

Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be understood.
—    Marie Curie
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