As we know, in order to understand fearlessness, one has to understand fear itself. Fear is a trembling, shaky feeling. Fundamentally, it is the fear of nonexistence.

This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstance.

All kinds of thoughts arise naturally. If you have lots of time to sit, endless thoughts happen constantly. The approach to that is actually no approach. Reduce everything to the thought level—recognize that all of this is just thinking. Usually, if you have mental chatter, you call it your thoughts. But if you have deeply involved emotional chatte

When you acknowledge that you feel so wretched, you can be fully cheerful. That is the interesting twist. You are being a wholesome, honest person. Usually, we aren’t this honest. You may think you can cheat the universe, and out of that, you develop all sorts of naughty or neurotic potentialities, convincing yourself that you do not have to look i

One’s appreciation of the world never diminishes. When you open your eyes early in the morning, you don’t say, “Oh, here’s another day, another pain.” First, you hear the rustling of the sheets on your bed. You feel your hair lying on your pillow, if you have any hair. In any case, you feel your head lying on the pillow, and you begin to look aroun

Ashe altogether is the powerful existence arising out of basic goodness.

To be without fear is to have great strength. The realization of fearlessness is the genuine martial art.

Fearlessness is a question of learning how to be. Be there all along: that is the message.

The warrior’s way is to pay attention to communication thoroughly, whether you are talking to a university professor, a bank manager, a taxi driver, a bus conductor, or a garbageman, or whether you are asking somebody for directions. The warrior’s speech is never sloppy.