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“I felt so skinless at times! Things hit me so hard!”
“This is the trouble with origin hunting. There are so many origins.”
“My mother took the measure of what could be built with the material she'd been given, and she built it.”
“There is no such thing as a good decision and a bad decision. There are only decisions. Make them, fuck up, enjoy, repeat.”
“First, contrary to popular belief, Buddhists can actually be very anxious people. Thats often why they become Buddhists in the first place. Buddhism was made for the anxious like Christianity was m...”
“But a child is a sensitive instrument. You can hide the factual truth from a child, but you can't blanket influence. Your agitation will out, and over time it will mod your child's temperament as s...”
“The problem of anxiety isn't that the organism responds to threats by near-instantly powering up. That's clearly a good thing, species-survival-wise. It's that sometimes the organism starts seeing ...”
“If you're afraid of heights, lean over a railing. If you're afraid of germs, lick a floor. But what do you do if your greatest fear is of being afraid?”
“If this all sounds melodramatic, well that, too, isnt a bad metaphor for anxietyas a kind of drama queen of the mind. If you have ever been friends with a drama queen you know how taxing it can be....”
“Yet I also felt, for the first time, truly and sincerely pissed. It was enough already. Enough! Id reached that point that comes in the life of most anxiety sufferers when, fed up by the constant w...”
“...Anxiety and panic happen to be mundane phenomena, i.e., even when they are caused by extraordinary things like war and rape, they tend to occur when things are ordinary and predictable and relat...”
“One of the things anxiety educates you in is how deeply physical thought can be, how concrete. In anxiety, there is no time to luxuriate in abstractions. Its just you and your mind, which has fists...”
“Freedom is anxiety's petri dish. If routine blunts anxiety, freedom incubates it. Freedom says, "Even if you don't want to make choices, you have to, and you can never be sure you have chosen corre...”
“If this all sounds melodramatic, well that, too, isn’t a bad metaphor for anxiety—as a kind of drama queen of the mind. If you have ever been friends with a drama queen you know how taxing it can b...”
