While we sleep, they hunt in the night and feed on flesh. They are nocturnal predators rarely seen as more than movement in a shadow. Why are children afraid of the dark? Why are you? Generations of evolution condition us to survive. Shun the unknown...

Feeding Fire 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....

I'm feeding a fear. You see, the profession I'm going into often scares me. A wrong move will occasionally cost someone their life. It's a bit intimidating. And I'm still in school. Not even at a university yet. But here I am, working the night shi...

I am terrified of my Id. It drives me to abandon my friends. It drives me to fuck everything that moves. It drives me to be sadistic. It drives me to lash out. Usually I ignore it. I keep it locked in a little box and fervently purge it from my ...

The level and extent to which I can procrastinate on work (big important work--work I care about) terrifies and appalls me. When I don't have lots of work to do, I can be as prompt as anything, and telling myself that I am a good student is as easy a...