Orts #904

  [P]erhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
     -- Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (letter 8), transl. M. D. Herter Norton

(German original:  [V]ielleicht sind alle Drachen unseres Lebens Prinzessinnen, die nur darauf warten, uns einmal schön und mutig zu sehen. Vielleicht ist alles Schreckliche im tiefsten Grunde das Hilflose, das von uns Hilfe will.)

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"the private ways that people make sense of the experience of losing their minds"
https://bit.ly/2CZK24W

from the same article:
 

- Nationally [in the U.S.], a quarter of jail inmates meet the criteria for a psychotic disorder.

- Eugen Bleuler (1857-1939), the psychiatrist who coined the terms schizophrenia and autism, said that after years of talking to his patients he found them stranger than the birds in his garden.

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Insanity-- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

     -- both, R. D. Laing (1927-1989)

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lavender for anxiety?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/science/lavender-scent-anxiety.html?module=inline
- the photo is wonderful even if you don't want to read the article -
 

History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.' Eduardo Galeano
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History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.' Eduardo Galeano
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/eduardo_galeano_620071