Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
People are afraid of everything.
Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear the loss of political rights, a loss of privacy, or a loss of freedom. We fear being injured, robbed or attacked, being judged by others, or neglected, or left unloved.
Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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