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.
Personal healing on all levels - physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual comes when we get in touch with our disowned energies.... Through integrating all aspects of ourselves, we become whole.
Even if they don't know that you are practicing for them, you are helping them and in turn they are helping you. They are actively helping you to develop your compassion, and so to purify and heal yourself. For me, all dying people are teachers, giving to all those who help them a chance to transform themselves through developing their compassion.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
Your gratitude attitude determines your life altitude.
Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.
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