“We can find peace or anxiety everywhere…The single most important move is acceptance. There is no need – on top of everything else – to be anxious that we are anxious. The mood is no sign that our lives have gone wrong, merely that we are alive. We should be more careful when pursuing things we imagine will spare us anxiety. We can pursue them by all means, but for other reasons than fantasies of calm – and with a little less vigour and a little more skepticism…We must suffer alone. But we can at least hold out our arms to our similarly tortured, fractured, and above all else, anxious neighbours, as if to say, in the kindest way possible: ‘I know…’”
Sage advice.
It is…
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Live & Learn wrote:
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And if we reach out to another, it’s amazing how our own anxiety diminishes quickly, for it ceases to be about us.
yes, I found his close in his post so poignant.
I accept.
You win!
I understand….. Laughing.
I should say “I know” … tee hee.
Ha!
I can choose peace instead of this.
And, and worthy choice it is Jennifer.