Sublime

despondency.

physical and psychological symptoms are messages, not lifelong diagnoses that can only be managed.

“It never occurs to us to regard it as a pathological condition and to refer it to medical treatment.” We rely instead on “its being overcome after a certain lapse of time.”

your true Self, not a therapist, is the agent of healing and wholeness.

Dorian Deshauer, a psychiatrist and historian at the University of Toronto, told me, “Once you abandon the idea of the personal baseline, it becomes possible to think of emotional suffering as relapse—instead of something to be expected from an individual’s way of being in the world.”

"You learn that which observes is you and not that which is being observed. Thus, no matter how undesirable any particular aspect is, it becomes wholly possible to deal with it, accept it, explore it, work with it, no longer be frightened by it.

If you seek a healer, analyst, therapist, or counselor, make certain they derive from a discipline that has solid predecessors, that they truly know how to do what they hold themselves out as able to do. Ask friends, relatives, and co-workers whom you trust for their recommendations. Make certain whichever teacher you choose is trained, and adequat

Ordinarily, when we feel or think something, we immediately conclude that this is how and what we are, and we identify ourselves with these thoughts and feelings. Closer observation reveals that body and mind affect one another, and they manifest in each other. So in the course of illness, we have to be very careful not to identify ourselves with o

Guilt can be hell indeed to a person with an oversensitized conscience.