Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry are cause by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence. Eckhart Tolle.
Sooner or later everyone experiences anxiety and pain-and while self-esteem can make one less susceptible, it cannot make one impervious. - Nathaniel Branden.
So if you are having the experience of anxiety, your body is making adrenaline and cortisone, if you are having the experience of tranquility, your body starts making valium, if you are having the experience of exhilaration and joy, your body makes interleukins and interferons which are powerful anti-cancer drugs. Deepak Chopra.
This we can all bear witness to, living as we do plagued by unremitting anxiety . It becomes more and more imperative that the life of the spirit be avowed as the only firm basis upon which to establish happiness and peace. - Dalai Lama.
There is an abiding sense of collective anxiety, understandable but not always easy to talk about. - Marianne Williamsom.
We now know that the human animal is characterized by two great fears that other animals are protected from: the fear of life and the fear of death... Heidegger brought these fears to the center of his existential philosophy. He argued that the basic anxiety of [humanity] is anxiety about being-in-the-world, as well as anxiety of being-in-the-world. That is, both fears of death and life, of experience and individuation. - Ernest Becker.
Even people with high self-esteem may experience anxiety, depression or fear when overwhelmed by issues they don't know how to cope with. - Nathaniel Branden.
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