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.
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.
Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. It results from over-motivation- leading to errors that lead to an underestimation of one's self. Work out your anxieties on paper and read. This calms the mind.
A river reaches places which its source never knows. And Jesus said that, if we have received His fullness, "rivers of living water" will flow out of us, reaching in blessing even "to the end of the earth" regardless of how small the visible effects of our lives may appear to be.
Grandfather's been dead all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint. He touched me. As I said earlier, he was a sculptor. 'I hate a Roman named Status Quo!' he said to me. 'Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
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