ivanananan/science fiction

"What's entropy, daddy?" shrilled Jerrodette II.

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

another Bene Gesserit mantra ( btw, "Fear is the mind killer" is a phrase from Aldous Huxley's novel Island, published in 1962 ( three years before Dune was published- but it's probably been used even a thousand times BC ). )

( on the other hand its T. S. Eliot and his "I will show you fear in a handful of dust". )