Storied Mind

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1. When deeply depressed, it’s not the fear of failure I carry but the fear that success is getting too close.

2. When I’m living in the timeless Now, what happens to hope, to a future, to recovery? I think I’ll want them back if I land again in the tightly timed now.

3. @soulful sepulcher said to me: Try this, you’re already recovered. Real recovery began as I considered that idea.

4. Mind: Recovery takes a long time, many steps, hard work: Belief & Feeling: Take us too or you’ll never know when you’ve arrived.

5. Thought, feeling, decision are instantaneous & preverbal. So what’s with all the mental words that slow down the doing?

6. Who am I talking to when I talk to myself? Who’s in that nameless, invisible audience I need to convince?

7. I’ve got a backseat driver jabbering his stop-action words of fear and undoing. He used to be the buzz but now he’s too boring to keep around.

8. No room in this town for Depression and me so I’m chasing him out right now. Or is that him chasing me?

9. Pema Chodron says the struggle to “meditate” gets nowhere. In the moment of hearing the gentle gong, your mind is still. That’s the moment of non-meditation.

10. Steven Hayes re ACT: “To be willing & accepting means noticing you are the sky, not the clouds; the ocean, not the waves.”

11. Steven Hayes again on ACT: “..willingness & acceptance are states of being that minds can never learn how to achieve.”