Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time.
Interpretation
Sleep plays a crucial role in maintaining mental well-being and perspective on daily events.
This quote by Roger Zelazny emphasizes the importance of sleep as a mental reset that helps individuals cope with daily challenges and emotional turmoil. By framing our experiences within the context of sleep, we gain a sense of distance from painful or foolish actions, allowing us to process events with a clearer mind and find humor or solace in them as time passes.
In practice
Using this quote during a mental health seminar to highlight the importance of rest.
In the mirrors of the many judgments, my hands are the color of blood. I sometimes fancy myself an evil which exists to oppose other evils; and on that great Day of which the prophets speak but in which they do not truly believe, on the day the world is utterly cleansed of evil, then I too will go down into darkness, swallowing curses. Until then, I will not wash my hands nor let them hang useless.
It would be nice if there were some one thing constant and unchanging in the universe. If there is such a thing, then it is a thing which would have to be stronger than love, and it is a thing which I do not know.
Money is needed to bring about many good things but when your heart is attached, it destroys you
I soon discovered that man's importunity is God's opportunity. he uses our problems as building materials for his miracles. I began to understand that this was my first lesson in learning to trust him completely, my first steps on the path to complete dependence on, and obedience to, his guidance.
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.
When we see the secret beauty of anyone, including ourselves, we see past our judgment and fear into the core of who we truly are - not an entrapped self but the radiance of goodness.
Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.
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