Let no one think it is an easy way because it is concerned with moments of happiness rather than with stern duty or high moral endeavour. For what is really easy, as I found, is to blind one’s eyes to what one really likes, to drift into accepting one’s wants ready-made from other people, and to evade the continual day to day sifting of values. And finally, let no one undertake such an experiment who is not prepared to find himself more of a fool than he thought.
— Marion Milner

anxiety <————> depression

flexibility <————> backbone

insides <————> outsides

real <————> unreal

self <————> other

despair <————> hope

together <————> separate

Mental health is a back and forth.

There is a way through every block.

— 2nd Sutra of the Aquarian Age

It is terribly good to carry water and chop wood.

-Joanna Newsom

Be not afraid of being afraid.

Limits will set you free.

Mental health is a back and forth.

“It is a joy to be hidden, and a disaster not to be found.”

— Winnicott

We don't have relationships to get our needs met, we have relationships to discover what our needs might be.”

— Adam Philips

Something unknown is doing we don’t know what, that is what our knowledge amounts to.