I want to feel myself part of things, of the great drift and swirl: not cut off, missing things, like being sent to bed early as a child, the blinds being drawn while the sun and cheerful voices came through the chink from the garden.
I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a … - Marion Milner
I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a …
- Marion Milner
by taking notice of those feelings and images that seemed to be in my blood and bones rather than in my head, I had found myself able to behave, not … - Marion Milner
by taking notice of those feelings and images that seemed to be in my blood and bones rather than in my head, I had found myself able to behave, not …
Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your own, for with your own you can … - Marion Milner
Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your own, for with your own you can …
Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is… - Marion Milner
Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is…
The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line. - Marion Milner
The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.
I came to the conclusion then that "continual mindfulness". . . must mean, not a sergeantmajor-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual readiness t… - Marion Milner
I came to the conclusion then that "continual mindfulness". . . must mean, not a sergeantmajor-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual readiness t…
Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, are perhaps forgotten by … - Marion Milner
Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, are perhaps forgotten by …
Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy one would know the things that were necessary in one's life. - Marion Milner
Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy one would know the things that were necessary in one's life.
I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason. - Marion Milner
I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.
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