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.
An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.
Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It's a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we're telling ourselves is what we see on TV.
I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.
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