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Darkness on The Horizon
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Care of the soul requires our appreciation of these ways it presents itself…Especially in dealing with depression, a mood close to our feelings of mortality, we must guard against the denial of death that is so easy to slip into. Even further, we may have to develop a taste for the depressed mood, a positive respect for its place in the soul’s cycles.
…Sometimes a person will come to a therapy session in a dark mood. “I shouldn’t have come today,” he will say. “I’ll feel better next week, and we can get on with it.” But I’m happy that he came, because together we will hear thoughts and feel his soul in a way not possible in his cheerful moods.
Melancholy gives the soul an opportunity to express a side of its nature that is as valid as any other, but is hidden out of our distaste for its darkness and bitterness…
~ Thomas Moore
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Literature opened my eyes to the world. When I started reading in high school, I had the impression that the author, no matter whether he was South American or Australian, was speaking to me directly. Years later, when in the factory where I worked, I was bullied for not cooperating with the dictatorship, when I was kicked out of the office and had to work on the stairs, then I began writing my first book. I didn’t want to do literature, I wanted to…
