Mareh Makom

Fear

• Fear of success: when happiness becomes a threat
  Why do we feel afraid precisely when life starts coming together?
  think of what is most precious to you, whose loss would pain you most of all, and cast it away, so that human eyes will never see it again.
• Fear: when choice itself turns into paralysis — between the fig tree and Buridan's ass
  Why does an endless surplus of possibilities leave us starving to death?
  I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose.
• Fear: How mediocrity uses hatred as a shield against itself
  Is hatred truly a form of strength, or just a mask concealing weakness?
  Anti-Semitism is, in short, the fear of the human condition.
• Fear: The price of a life without awe and a journey toward the courage to think
  Why is the fear of thinking more dangerous than any other fear?
  The greater a person's aptitude to understand and comprehend, the greater his imaginary fear of the workings of thought.
• Fear: The courage to remain standing as the wave passes
  What is the difference between someone broken by fear and someone who acts despite it?
  Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.