My Med Today

“Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, we are alone indeed! We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.”
― E.M. Cioran

"There was a time I believe one day I can heal the sick, raise the dead and cast out demons. I nearly die!"
-ChristianDM

"I am guilty. To whom am I guilty? I need to be kind to myself. I need to forgive myself!"
-ChristianDM, On Living.

"Today I try to be loving to a stranger, a waitress. I feel awkward. I need to add kindness to lovingness."
-ChristianDM, On Living.

"I think I am beginning to get used to living with a normal person. I am not lonely."
-ChristianDM, On Living with His Madness. He gave his wife a kiss while she was sleeping.

“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.”
- Baruch Spinoza

“Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.”
― Kevin J. Anderson, A Forest of Stars

“We must think beyond ourselves”
― Kevin J. Anderson, A Forest of Stars

“Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" My wife says I am very stubborn. That is not true, I answered. I just have problem letting go of what I strongly believe in."
-ChristianDM, On his Personality.

"I don't like arguing with people on their thoughts and feelings. I gave that up. I like arguing with myself on my thoughts and feelings. I do so ever so gently, mindful of how I am thinking and feeling."
-ChristianDM, On Living.

“Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds... But love is, to me, the ultimately more extraordinary part of the breakwater wall: it helps to shut out the terror and awfulness, while, at the same time, allowing in life and beauty and vitality.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

"I try to understand life. Life says understand my own life. It is sufficient enough, more than sufficient if I can accept it."
-ChristianDM, On Living with His Madness.

AeonDM are you quoting yourself as ChristianDM?

"There is a saying that beauty lies in the eyes on the beholder. Ugliness and also become beautiful if you can accept it."
-ChristianDM, On Living, he is arguing with himself.

Don't tell nobody.

ok I won't

“Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn.' What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying 'Know thyself.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff, Views from the Real World: Early Talks Moscow Essentuki Tiflis Berlin London Paris NY Chicago as Recollecte

“For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.”
― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.”
― Trey Parker and Matt Stone

“I man is a prisoner of only his own mind.”
― Michael Hawkins

Quote removed. Sorry.

Poor choice of a quote. It could be triggering for some...In addition to being an ugly image.

Right, my bad. I need to be more careful...

It just remind me of a time, when I was in deep pain during my major depression. It lasted one month. I can't even eat, only dinner. It was so bad that I was trembling. I thought I was going to crack.