Anxiety is the gap between now and later.
Interpretation
Anxiety arises from our worries about the future rather than being present in the moment.
This quote highlights the concept that anxiety often stems from our preoccupation with what is to come, rather than being fully engaged in the present. It suggests that by focusing on the here and now, we can alleviate feelings of anxiety that are created by our anticipation and fears about the future.
In practice
During a speech about mental health, this quote can emphasize the importance of living in the moment.
If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.
Their attitude is, 'okay, I am the customer. You are supposed to entertain me.' It's kind of a passive attitude they're taking, and to me it's kind of a pathetic thing. They do not know how interesting it is if you move one step further and try to challenge yourself with more advanced games.
None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the way they think.
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.
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