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“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

“Staying quiet doesn’t mean I have nothing to say, it means I don’t think you’re ready to hear my thoughts.”

“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.”

““Don’t forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.” - Charles de Lint, The Blue Girl”

“When the worst that can happen has come and gone And you’re still standing, remember that you won.”

As humans are taken to be units of energy in industrialized societies, they will resist, whether they are conscious of this or not. Thus, much of what is today labelled depression could be understood as old-fashioned hysteria, in the sense of a refusal of current forms of mastery and domination. The more that society insists on the values of efficiency and economic productivity, the more depression will proliferate as a necessary consequence.