Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time.
Interpretation
Sleep plays a crucial role in maintaining mental well-being and perspective on daily events.
This quote by Roger Zelazny emphasizes the importance of sleep as a mental reset that helps individuals cope with daily challenges and emotional turmoil. By framing our experiences within the context of sleep, we gain a sense of distance from painful or foolish actions, allowing us to process events with a clearer mind and find humor or solace in them as time passes.
In practice
Using this quote during a mental health seminar to highlight the importance of rest.
In the mirrors of the many judgments, my hands are the color of blood. I sometimes fancy myself an evil which exists to oppose other evils; and on that great Day of which the prophets speak but in which they do not truly believe, on the day the world is utterly cleansed of evil, then I too will go down into darkness, swallowing curses. Until then, I will not wash my hands nor let them hang useless.
It would be nice if there were some one thing constant and unchanging in the universe. If there is such a thing, then it is a thing which would have to be stronger than love, and it is a thing which I do not know.
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.
Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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