Courage is not the absence of fear. It's the conquering of it. You can't even show courage unless you're afraid.

And that is the quote of the day.

Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host Sean Crox and I'm Sean Crox and dot com.

Today we've got the peaceful warrior himself, Mr. Dan Millman on the show and Dan is talking about fear.

He's talking about courage and our minds are a trip. You know, we've got this programming, this conditioning that we've learned pretty much since we were born and just follows us around everywhere we go in our minds.

They always want to move toward pleasure and move away from pain. Our minds want to avoid pain. Our ego is want to avoid pain.

It just wants to stay in certainty, it just does not like uncertainty because uncertainty, you know, where we should associate uncertainty with growth.

Our minds and our egos associate that uncertainty with pain. And then we feel fear. And then we have this avoidance behavior.

We're stuck without growing, not really living, not walking up to our fears and just experiencing life, the way that it's supposed to be experienced.

And many times actually almost all of the times those fears that we have those things that we think are going to happen if we do experience something or do try something new.

And those fears, those things that we thought were going to happen, they weren't even true. They were just like figments of our imagination.

So our brains, our minds just catastrophize everything in order to keep us safe. And what Dan talks about today is how to know when to listen to your fear, when it's legitimate, but also when it's time to just go for it.

So here's Dan.

There was a very cautious man who never laughed or played. He never risked, he never tried, he never sang or prayed.

And one one day he passed away, insurance was denied. For since he never really lived, they claimed he never died.

Sydney Smith once wrote, a great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.

When you go before your creator, God will ask, where are your wounds? And if you reply, I have no wounds, God will ask, was there nothing worth fighting for?

Fear is a wonderful servant. It's a strong feeling. It's there as a warning. If you're walking down the street one day or you had a flat tire, it's dark night, you're walking and there's, you're about to go around the corner and you have this intuitive kind of fear coming up.

The hairs stand up on the back of your neck. Listen to it. Fear can be a wonderful guide. Fear is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

When you look back on your life one day, you will not regret what you've done nearly as much as what you haven't done.

And what you haven't done will be because of fear. What would it be like to live with no fear as unrealistic as that may be?

Because fear is as natural as any other emotions. But what would it be like if there was something in you had no fear?

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