Desire urges me on while fear bridals me

Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully. All fear is the fear of losing something, and thereby become diminished and be less. These two movements obscure the fact that being cannot be given or taken away. Being in its fullness is already within you, now. (Ch 5)

When desire dies,fear is born

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.

They yearn for what they fear for.

So that their fear is turned into desire.

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory of pain. Both make the mind restless. (...)

I was a battleground of fear and curiosity.

I delight in what I fear.

Fear requires a desire to exist in the future.

She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.

Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.

I am afraid but I must be brave