The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
"And how are you?", said Winnie-the-Pooh. (...)"Not very how", he said. "I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time."
Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
“It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved,” she explained.
Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?
This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to "get culture" or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.
Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.