Hoping a situation will change keeps you at a distance from your true feelings-sadness, anger, fear. Each of these feelings is best appreciated up close. Feel them deeply, and they will cease to bother you. Hope they'll go away, and they'll bother you all day.
Interpretation
Avoiding true feelings only prolongs distress; embracing emotions leads to healing.
This quote emphasizes the importance of confronting and feeling our emotions—such as sadness, anger, and fear—rather than hoping they will disappear on their own. The author argues that by fully experiencing these feelings, we can reduce their hold on us, leading to greater emotional well-being and resilience.
In practice
In a therapy session focusing on emotional release.
You never know when it is going to happen, when you will experience a moment that dramatically transforms your life. When you look back, often years later, you may see how a brief conversation or an insight you read somewhere, changed the entire course of your life.
Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed out inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure.
All the things you're not supposed to do at the beginning of your professional life - transgressiveness, arbitrariness and violating expectations - you find more attractive at the end of your professional life.
In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.
Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.
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