And if you're lucky enough to survive going crazy and get back to the point where you can pass for normal, it builds a question into the rest of your life. You have to forgive people for wondering, 'How all right can he be?'
Interpretation
Surviving madness leads to self-discovery and creates questions about one's normalcy.
This quote highlights the journey of returning to a state of normalcy after experiencing profound distress or madness. The speaker suggests that this experience shapes one's perspective and influences how others perceive them, emphasizing the importance of forgiveness towards those who question your stability after such a tumultuous journey.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming mental health struggles.
It's all about knowing that everybody that you see, everybody that you sit across from is a different aspect of yourself. So once you can accept yourself on every level, that's when everything opens up, that's when the party really begins.
It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.
I cleanse the windows of my mind, that it may become a mirror reflecting inspiration from the most High. I do this, not with strenuous effort, but through quiet contemplation, through gently reaching and affirming an inward recognition. I know exactly what to do in every situation. There is an inspiration within me which governs every act, every thought, with certainty, with conviction and in peace.
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
Your enlightenment is perfect only when silence has come to be a celebration. Hence my insistence that after you meditate you must celebrate. After you have been silent you must enjoy it, you must have a thanksgiving. A deep gratitude must be shown towards the whole just for the opportunity that you are, that you can meditate, that you can be silent, that you can laugh.
Get work, get work; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.
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