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.
From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?
You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know about life.
Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.
Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.
Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.
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