“If emotion and fatigue lowered the potency of thought, what raised it? I began to reconsider my moments of delight in terms of this statement of the problem, moments whose essential quality had been a fusing of experience, a flash… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
“I came to the conclusion then that “continual mindfulness” could certainly not mean that my little conscious self should be entirely responsible for marshalling and arranging all my thoughts, for it simply did not know enough. It must mean, not… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable. — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
“By continual watching and expression I must learn to observe my thought and maintain a vigilance, not against “wrong” thoughts, but against refusal to… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me.… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
Love is not getting, but giving. It is sacrifice. And sacrifice is glorious! — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
“Blind thinking… could make me pretend I was being true to myself when really I was only being true to an infantile fear and… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
until you have, once at least, faced everything you know - the whole universe - with utter giving in, and let all that is… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy one would know the things that were necessary in one's life. — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
“Let no one think it is an easy way because it is concerned with moments of happiness rather than with stern duty or high… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them. — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
“If emotion and fatigue lowered the potency of thought, what raised it? I began to reconsider my moments of delight in terms of this… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
“I had just begun to ponder over the fact that all the things which I had found to be sources of happiness seemed to… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
“It struck me as odd that it had taken me so long to reach a feeling of sureness that there was something in me… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
“Here then was a deadlock. I wanted to get the most out of life, but the more I tried to grasp, the more I… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
“I had been continually exhorted to define my purpose in life, but I was now beginning to doubt whether life might not be too… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
I want to feel myself part of things, of the great drift and swirl: not cut off, missing things, like being sent to bed… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
