Love this essay and worth to me to re-read it. I tend to collect profound (to me) quotes and will often repeat them so that not only will I memorize them, but they do become part of who I am. I have one that's always present at the end of my emails that reads "We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are"....Anais Nin; and one I have on my wall is a Robert Frost quote: "The best way out is always through". That one has become my way of dealing with difficult things instead of seeking a non-healthy way to cope. A big reason or cause of my insomnia is that somehow I find myself contemplating the meaning of things whether it's in words for a title to a piece, or the symbology of the objects I use themselves. And if I'm fortunate to actually fall asleep, sometimes I'll have found a way, answers as to what/how to create something that has stumped me. It's as if the intense thinking prepares the unconscious mind to 'help' me where I'm stuck when awake. It's a balance as sometimes "overthinking" something can be detrimental to what I want to achieve. Thank you for yet another brilliant writing piece.
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Love this essay and worth to me to re-read it. I tend to collect profound (to me) quotes and will often repeat them so that not only will I memorize them, but they do become part of who I am. I have one that's always present at the end of my emails that reads "We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are"....Anais Nin; and one I have on my wall is a Robert Frost quote: "The best way out is always through". That one has become my way of dealing with difficult things instead of seeking a non-healthy way to cope. A big reason or cause of my insomnia is that somehow I find myself contemplating the meaning of things whether it's in words for a title to a piece, or the symbology of the objects I use themselves. And if I'm fortunate to actually fall asleep, sometimes I'll have found a way, answers as to what/how to create something that has stumped me. It's as if the intense thinking prepares the unconscious mind to 'help' me where I'm stuck when awake. It's a balance as sometimes "overthinking" something can be detrimental to what I want to achieve. Thank you for yet another brilliant writing piece.
Beautiful, Cecil!!!