A recent post by Henrik Edberg over at The Positivity Blog has some real great tips and quotes on overcoming your fears.

As I started to read the post, I was drawn in by a quote from the book Dune by Frank Herbert:

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.

Ok… so you got the sci-fi buff.  But as I read more, I found the most compelling bit of advise came from someone who went through life in darkness: Helen Keller.  Blind and deaf for most of her adult life, Helen was outspoken, an activist and well traveled.  She said:

Security is mostly a superstition.  It does not exist in nature…  Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.  [Emphasis added]

So perhaps my fear of heights is not only valid, it’s also part of the price one pays to feel alive.  Food for though…

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.