| There is death, something you do not know. What you don’t know you are afraid of – at least you think you are afraid of something you do not know. But is that so? How can you be frightened of something you do not know? You are frightened of losing something you already know – that is the real cause of fear. Not the unknown but something which you have stored up – of losing that you are afraid. You are afraid of losing the known, not of the unknown. From Public Talk 7, New Delhi, 11 February 1962 Read more | 