Ana

“...a primary feature of the experience of staying in a psychiatric hospital is that you will not be believed about anything. A corollary to this feature: things will be believed about you that are not at all true.”
― Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

“Learn to read symptoms not only as problems to be overcome but as messages to be heeded.”
― Gabor Maté, When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

“A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.”
― T. E. Hulme

“One has to be wounded in order to become a healer. This is the local image of a universal mythological motif, which is described in Eliade's book about the initiation of medicine men and shamans. Nobody becomes either one or the other without first having been wounded, either cut open by the initiator and having certain magical stones inserted into his body, or a spear thrown at his neck, or some such thing. Generally, the experiences are ecstatic – stars or ghost-like demons – hit them or cut them open, but always they have to be pierced or cut apart before they become healers, for that is how they acquire the capacity for healing others.”
― Marie-Louise von Franz, The Problem of the Puer Aeternus