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I came across something today that really sums up where I am at. Oddly, it does not provide inspiration or a way to feel better, yet it makes me feel better when I read something I could never put into words.
Do some of you use quotes, sayings, mantras, affirmations to help you understand or process or cope with depression? Anything that you use to lift your spirits?
I hope to start saying some positive affirmations soon, but right now I'm just in a place where I am trying to accept things and process them. So here is what I found today:
"My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning." Clarice Lispector
I'd never heard of her and I did a bit of research on her life. Even though she died young, she LIVED. That feels like what my life has been lacking for many years now. Actually living rather than just existing.
Anyway, I thought it might be interesting to hear what other people have found meaningful as they deal with depression.
"The heart is an umbilical cord which connects us to the Ground of Being. The heart is our creative imagination, born of our instinct for relationship with this Divine Ground. The heart generates all our quests, all our hopes and longings and will ultimately bring us to reunion with this Ground. Without the heart, without the instinct to feel, to imagine, to hope and to love, life is meaningless, sterile, dead. When we are in touch with our heart, it comes alive, it vibrates, it sings."
-Andrew Harvey-
So though there is a bio-chemical aspect of depression, to me (or for me) the above addresses the crux of depression.
It is ultimately a spiritual dilemma.
I could say that all suffering is rooted in a mis-perception / misunderstanding / disconnect from our true nature and from clear perception of what actually is.
Most children are not depressed.
Their hearts are still open and singing.
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite”. -William Blake-
No one with that kind of expanse of consciousness and awareness could be depressed.
"The heart is an umbilical cord which connects us to the Ground of Being. The heart is our creative imagination, born of our instinct for relationship with this Divine Ground. The heart generates all our quests, all our hopes and longings and will ultimately bring us to reunion with this Ground. Without the heart, without the instinct to feel, to imagine, to hope and to love, life is meaningless, sterile, dead. When we are in touch with our heart, it comes alive, it vibrates, it sings."
-Andrew Harvey-
So though there is a bio-chemical aspect of depression, to me (or for me) the above addresses the crux of depression.
It is ultimately a spiritual dilemma.
I could say that all suffering is rooted in a mis-perception / misunderstanding / disconnect from our true nature and from clear perception of what actually is.
Most children are not depressed.
Their hearts are still open and singing.
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite”.
-William Blake-
No one with that kind of expanse of consciousness and awareness could be depressed.
"It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishment the scroll,
I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul."- Invictus
“You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different.” - Paulo Coelho, veronika decides to die
Precisely because it does not register with me. I do not attribute anything to a spiritual dilemma, so of course I'm blank or confused or don't understand when people speak in these terms.
I don't know if you are referring to religion or not. I am not a believer in religion.
At any rate, sorry I asked. This thread was and is about quotes, sayings, etc but I did ask and I will drop it.
The quotes that i presented in my first post were about an open and alive heart and clear / unobstructed perception.
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