I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful.
Interpretation
The quote reflects a profound sense of inner peace and emotional cleansing.
In this quote, Margaret Atwood conveys a powerful experience of feeling entirely rejuvenated and serene. The imagery of being 'white' suggests purity and calmness, while being 'drained of blood' indicates a letting go of turmoil and distress, leaving one in a state of tranquility and care. This sense of emotional purification highlights the importance of finding peace within ourselves.
In practice
This quote could be shared during a meditation session to emphasize the feeling of inner peace.
If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go; but it’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you’ve already fallen over; you don’t seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.
I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a better chance. If it’s a story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story, and real life will come after it. I can pick up where I left off.
What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game would be crazy enough to hire me. I wouldn't even make a good ditch-digger, I'd start tearing apart the sewer-system, trying to pick-axe and unearth all those chthonic symbols - pipes, valves, cloacal conduits... No, no. I'll have to be a slave in the paper-mines for all time.
We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for some it’s a talent, for others only an addiction.
I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.
Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad.
What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
You are without needs. There is nothing that you need in order to be perfectly happy. You only think that there is. Your deepest, most perfect happiness will be found within, and once you find it, nothing exterior to your Self can match it, nor can anything destroy it.
HAPPINESS is ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED
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