“How marvellously lie our anxieties, in filmy layers, one over the other! Take away that which has lain on the upper surface for so long - the care of cares - the only one, as it seemed to you, between your soul and the radiance of Heaven - and straight you find a new stratum there.” LongSoulCareLyingHeavenAnxietySurfaceYour SoulLayersRadiance Book:Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Source: Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
“Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.” GivingMindLongDoeLyingGiving UpIllusionDeceptionAssumptionCollapseLayersIdleRestless Book:The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness Source: The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness