I want to live without fear of any kind, not a particular kind. I don’t want to have fear about anything. I might have done wrong things in the past, and I will do wrong things. You might discover what I have done, you might throw me off my pedestal – anything you like – but I don’t want to have fear. That demand not to have fear makes me investigate into the question of thought and not escape from fear.
From Small Group Discussion 6, London, 31 May 1962