My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the struggle of facing one's own flaws and the impact of self-reflection on mental health.
Philip K. Dick's quote captures the profound and often burdensome nature of self-criticism and the psychological toll it can take on an individual. It suggests that dedicating time to confront one's own perceived failures can lead to a deep sense of depression, underscoring the challenge of self-examination and the weight of our inner narratives.
In practice
During a mental health awareness campaign, this quote can spark discussions about the importance of empathy towards those struggling with depression.
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.
"Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.
The truth is that we are saved by grace only after all we ourselves can do. (See 2 Ne. 25:23.) There will be no government dole which can get us through the pearly gates. Nor will anybody go into the celestial kingdom who wants to go there on the works of someone else. Every man must go through on his own merits. We might just as well learn this here and now.
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
The law is reason, free from passion.
I find this in all these places I've been travelling - from India to China, to Japan and Europe and to Brazil - there is a frustration with the terms of public discourse, with a kind of absence of discussion of questions of justice and ethics and of values.
Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking people (and here I do not include the corporate media) begin to rally under flags, when writers, painters, musicians, film makers suspend their judgment and blindly yoke their art to the service of the “Nation,” it’s time for all of us to sit up and worry.
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