“The word 'depressed' can be spoken as deep rest.
We can choose to view depression not as a mental illness but as a state of Deep Rest, a spiritual exhaustion that we enter into when we are de-pressed (pressed down) by the weight of the false self, the mask, the mind-made story of “me”.
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Slow down today. Allow yourself to rest, deeply.
And weep. And breathe. And begin again. Now.
I say, our depression is holy.
It contains the seeds of new life.”
~ Jeff Foster