The Litany Against Fear is a fictional incantation from Frank Herbert's Dune, published in 1965. Characters in the novel use it as a mantra to calm themselves and push through terror. It's spoken by the Bene Gesserit, the secretive order that trains its members in mental and physical discipline.
The full text:
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.
The Litany Against Fear is a fictional incantation from Frank Herbert's Dune, published in 1965. Characters in the novel use it as a mantra to calm themselves and push through terror. It's spoken by the Bene Gesserit, the secretive order that trains its members in mental and physical discipline.
The full text: