Fear is simply because you are not living with life, you are living in your mind. Your fear is always about what is going to happen next. That means your fear is always about that which does not exist.

Your fear is never about what has happened. It is always about what may happen. It is always about the future. The future is yet to happen. It has not yet happened.

That means, it is not in existence. So, being fearful means you are suffering that which does not exist.

Your only comfort is that ‘everybody is like me.’ You have the majority with you. But that still does not make it right because you are suffering that which does not exist.

If your fear is about the non-existent, your fear is 100% imaginary. If you are suffering the non-existential, we call that insanity.

So, people may be in just socially accepted levels of insanity, but if you are afraid or if you are suffering anything which does not exist, it amounts to insanity.

You are suffering either what happened yesterday or what may happen tomorrow.

So your suffering is always about that which does not exist, simply because you are not rooted in reality, you are always rooted in your mind.

Mind is – one part of it is memory, another part of it is imagination. Both of them are in one way imagination, because both of them do not exist right now.

You are lost in your imagination, that is the basis of your fear. If you were rooted in reality, there would be no fear.

You can not overcome that which does not exist. – Sadhguru

What fear does is it puts boundaries around you. It is because of fear that you build boundaries all the time.

If you put boundaries and restrict the area of your life, you may be safe but the problem is you are safe even from life. You are protected from life itself. That is real protection.

You must decide whether you have come here to experience life or to avoid life.

If you have come to experience life, one thing that is needed is intensity. If you do not have intensity you will experience a meager life.

The moment you use fear as a tool to protect yourself, your intensity will go down. Once it goes down, your ability to experience life is gone. You become a psychological case.

What happens in your mind is all there will be. You will never experience anything fantastic and ecstatic because when you are fearful, you will not have a sense of abandon.

You can not sing, you can not dance, you can not laugh, you can not cry, you can not do anything that is life. You can only sit here and grieve about life and all the risks of life.

Fear is not a product of life. Fear is a product of a hallucinatory mind.

You suffer that which does not exist because you are rooted not in reality but in your mind which is constantly eating up on the past and excreting into the future.

You do not actually know anything about future. You just take a piece of the past, apply make-up on it and think it is future.

You can plan your tomorrow but you can not live in your tomorrow. But you are living in tomorrow and that is why there is fear. The only thing you can do about this is, come down to reality.

If you just respond to what is there right now and not imagine something that does not exist, there is no room for fear.

Once the hallucination is gone, where is fear. You will not imagine something that does not exist, you will respond to what exists right now.

Look at it and see, what the hell can happen after all. At the most you will die, nothing more. At least live before you die because anyway you will die. We are not wishing it upon ourselves.

We are planning to live for many years, but it can happen. There is really no security with life. It is just a question of how gracefully and with how much freedom you live this life.

If you have lived, it will be worth dying. Otherwise life will be a regret.