The battles that count aren't the ones for GOLDMEDALS. The STRUGGLESWITHIN yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is FREEDOM, when there is CONTINUOUSREVOLUTION inwardly, within yourself.
When you SAY 'FEAR of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not FAMILIAR with it, and that KEEPS you safe.