“At a time of affliction, expect a provocation to sensual pleasure; for because it relieves the affliction it is readily welcomed.”
—St. Mark the Ascetic
Category: SUFFERING
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In hindsight, it’s incredible how trivial some of it seems. At the time, though, it was the perfect storm. I include wording like “impossible situation,” which was reflective of my thinking at the time, not objective reality.
Tim Ferriss on How He Survived Suicidal Depression and His Tools for Warding Off the Darkness -
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”
—Wendell Berry, “Poetry and Marriage: The Use of Old Forms” -
“When people have these kind of problems, it’s time to stop asking what’s wrong with them and time to start asking what happened to them.”
— Dr. Robert Anda -
“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”
—Jim Rohn -
it’s easy for a depressed person to look like he’s not working when just lying in bed can feel like work for him.
ASK MOLLY | Hungry! -
Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
— Naguib Mahfouz -
When those who have acquired moral stability and contemplative knowledge employ these for the sake of human glory, merely conveying an outward impression of the virtues, and uttering words of wisdom and knowledge without performing the corresponding actions; and when in addition they display to others their vanity because of this supposed virtue and knowledge, then they are rightly handed over to commensurate hardships, in order to learn through suffering that humility which was unknown to them before because of their empty conceit.
—St Maximos the Confessor
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