Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. The version of the litany used in the time of Paul Muad'dib was believed to have originated with the Bene Gesserit, who themselves faced great dangers during their extensive training "I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. A mantra of the City of Introspection went like this: It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”Īn ancient form of the litany existed already during the Butlerian Jihad. The phrase derives from William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, “A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.
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