Litany Against Fear

Lately I have been feeling a breeze: the winds of change. We are often resistant to variation in our lives, suppressing transformation and innovation for the comforts of the familiar. It is important to take that first step outside our complacency, and to keep walking.

Frank Herbert, Dune (1965)

I must not fear.

Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.

Only I will remain.