We are all afraid about something; there is no fear in abstraction, it is always in relation to something. Do you know your own fears- fear of losing your job, of not having enough food or money, or what your neighbours or the public think about you, or not being a success, of losing your position in society, of being despised or ridiculed- fear of pain and disease, of domination, of never knowing what love is or of not being loved, of losing your wife or children, of living in a world that is like death, of utter boredom, of not living up to the image others have built about you, of losing your faith-all these innumerable other fears, do you know your own particular fears? And what do you usually do about 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.
J. Krishnamurti/Freedom from the Known, 41
