Tag Archives: Anaïs Nin

Like a laborious mosaic

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination.  Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. Anaïs Nin

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A world in us

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. Anäis Nin

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We are the masters of our own fate

I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate.  It was not a matter of bad or good luck.  When they could no longer blame … Continue reading

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Life shrinks or expands

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. Anaïs Nin, Diary, 1969

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