What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of things we may not see but that significantly affect our well-being.
Jeanette Winterson suggests that our well-being is influenced by elements that are often overlooked or invisible to us. These can include emotions, thoughts, relationships, and deeper meanings in life that we might take for granted, reminding us to be more aware of the unseen aspects that contribute to our overall health and happiness.
In practice
In a wellness seminar discussing mental health.
What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.
I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.
Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was she mad? We had been talking figuratively. Her heart was in her body like mine. I tried to explain this to her, but she took my hand and put it against her chest. Feel for yourself.
History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages
These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
Those who suffer from an exaggerated sense of their own ability and accomplishment are continually subject to frustration, disappointment, and rage when reality intrudes and the world doesn't validate their idealized view of themselves.
A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.
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