Tuesday, February 26, 2013

EXCERPTS FROM LIVING WITH STRESS

INTRODUCTION

[...] you do not experience the world first-hand. Moreover, you are dealing with the outer world and your own inner world at one and the same time, both of them mediated by your perception.
   In other words, nothing is what it seems.


[...] do not take this as a promise or a lure. I know nothing about you nor, for that matter, does anyone else. You are the one who knows everything about you, even when a large part of what you know may be unconscious.


[...] Your map is always "work in progress," for you collect and add new information by the minute. The good news is that you have already secured the basic patterns. You just need to learn how to read the signs, old and new.


I offer you the clues. Still, remember you are unique, and so are your map, your life, and your ties with the world.








13 comments:

  1. Yes, Everyone is a unique person!!! i so agree with you on this thought!!!

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  2. Thank you, Louise! I'm so happy you read it. You know I very much respect your opinion!

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  3. I love this Marta "I offer you the clues. Still, remember you are unique, and so are your map, your life, and your ties with the world." I shall tweet it with your link LOL. I've a fetish for quotes and this is he best one I've read in awhile.

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    1. Nicole, I'm so humbled by your words. Thank you for reading and spreading the quote. More to come. I'll be looking forward to your opinion.
      Hugs,
      Marta

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  4. This is a promising vision indeed. I've been galled so often with guidebooks and articles telling you how to live (sometimes elevated to the status of 'the art of living') that I gave up on the genre altogether. It systematically infringes on personal boundaries - merely because most authors forget that each human being is a universe unto her- or himself. While you put this very idea center stage. Three cheers for you, Marta!

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    1. Thank you, Pim! I hope you find the coming excerpts equally positive...

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  5. As usual, I learn so much about you through your writings. Marta, you truly are a fascinating person with so many edges and curves.

    Thanks for sharing you writing and thoughts with us.

    Love and blessings,
    Pat

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    1. Thank you, Pat, for your constant encouragement.
      Love and blessings to you.

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  6. A lovely lyrical introduction to what I am absolutely certain is a marvelous book - officially on my list! Thank you dear Marta for sharing your penetrating insights and poetic wisdom with us all.

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  7. Dear PJ, I cannot thank you enough for your words. This book, like the others in the Bibliotreatment series, was not supposed to be poetic but factual. However, the novelist encroaches upon the psychologist and the other way about, so I end up with novels in which psychology weighs heavily, and with "technical" books written in literary style. I cannot change that, and perhaps it's for the best.

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  8. Thanks, Marta, for your informative blog on stress. Your article is well-written and worth reading! Stay blessed, Yvonne

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