I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.
What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind
I'm the one I need to work with.
The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it.
If I think the environment in the world needs to be cleaned up, let me clean up my own environment. Let me clean up the environment in my head - let me work with that pollution and that ecosystem.
I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.