This morning I discovered that I really don’t know how to heal the mind. Then “Be ye kind.” came to mind, which is good until one says it hatefully…
I like the “Be ye kind.” without the hatred. Nice chordy, I like your positive outlook and tinge of humour.
Hate never seems to affect the person I direct it at. It does affect me, however. Badly. When I can’t avoid hate, I try to make a distinction between hating a person and hating their actions, the latter being the healthier of the two. The less hate I have in my life, the better my life is.
Pixel.
Hate breeds hate and I imagine that just like drugs the more that you do the more you are into it.
I read this when I first got sober. Begging for a reread now.
Karl Augustus Menninger (July 22, 1893 - July 18, 1990), born in Topeka, Kansas, was an American psychiatrist and a member of the famous Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas.
During his career, Menninger wrote a number of influential books. In his first book, The Human Mind, Menninger argued that psychiatry was a science and that the mentally ill were only slightly different than healthy individuals. In The Crime of Punishment, Menninger argued that crime was preventable through psychiatric treatment; punishment was a brutal and inefficient relic of the past. He advocated treating offenders like the mentally ill.
His subsequent books include The Vital Balance, Man Against Himself and Love Against Hate.
Yeah one form of meningitis is now called a urinary tract infection. May help if a person finds themselves in a particular type of psych ward. “Be kind, rewind.” hahah.