I am my biggest marital problem
We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.
I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings.
The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one.
Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit, most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy. With Eros the body stands naked, in friendship our spirit is denuded.
One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truths lie.
Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.
Into the day as by dream I swim To the music of nourished meaning.
He can run, but he can't hide.
When they've shut down, you get more nervous. They react to that, and it's just this hideous shame spiral. Although sometimes that can be some good train-wreck TV. That's another reason it's definitely difficult - when you are just not connecting, and it's there for the world to see.
Go on day by day fulfilling the task of the day, and leaving the results with God.