What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of things we may not see but that significantly affect our well-being.
Jeanette Winterson suggests that our well-being is influenced by elements that are often overlooked or invisible to us. These can include emotions, thoughts, relationships, and deeper meanings in life that we might take for granted, reminding us to be more aware of the unseen aspects that contribute to our overall health and happiness.
In practice
In a wellness seminar discussing mental health.
What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.
I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.
Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was she mad? We had been talking figuratively. Her heart was in her body like mine. I tried to explain this to her, but she took my hand and put it against her chest. Feel for yourself.
History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.
Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
The disease that knowledge brings is arrogance, and the disease that worship brings is showing off
What you put your attention on grows strong in your life.
Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.
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