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With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.

There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.