Quotes — Mental Health and Conditions

• "To live in the here and now is to have no regrets about the past, no worries or expectations for the future. To be fully present in each moment of existence is to live in total contentment, in peace and love. To enter into this presence is to reside in a different state of being, in a timeless moment, in the eternal present."

  — Ram Dass

  Polishing the Mirror

• "Amongst all of the existential angst of modern life there is a blossoming of spirit arising within the collective psyche of humanity."

  — Adyashanti

  The Deep Heart

• "Normal anxiety is an expression of the capacity of the organism to react to threats; this capacity is innate and has its inherited neurophysiological system."

  — Rollo May

  The Meaning of Anxiety

• "…conscious anxiety is more painful but it is available also to use in the service of integration of the self."

  — Rollo May

  The Meaning of Anxiety

• "…anxiety can inform your life, but it does not have to define it. You’re not destined for anxiety; you’re destined for equanimity."

  — Sheryl Paul

  The Wisdom of Anxiety

• "The constructive way of dealing with anxiety… consists of learning to live with it, accepting it as a “teacher,” to borrow Kierkegaard’s phrase, to school us in confronting our human destiny."

  — Rollo May

  The Meaning of Anxiety

• "The problem of the management of anxiety is that of reducing the anxiety to normal levels, and then to use this normal anxiety as stimulation to increase one’s awareness, vigilance, zest for living."

  — Rollo May

  The Meaning of Anxiety

• "This is the wisdom of anxiety: the call to turn inward so that you can fill your well and turn back outward to give to a world that needs you."

  — Sheryl Paul

  The Wisdom of Anxiety

• "…when we learn how to harness the wisdom of anxiety, the richness and messages contained in the unconscious can inform and expand our conscious lives."

  — Sheryl Paul

  The Wisdom of Anxiety

• "Anxiety… is worry about future uncertainty and our inability to control what will happen to us."

  — Marc Brackett

  Permission to Feel

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