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We hope our best and inspiring overcoming depression quotes and sayings make us love ourselves a little more and live life in all its beauty.
What is Depression?
Depression is a deep inner disappointment over an unfulfilled desire for an extended time.
One primary symptom of a depressing personality is that they keep becoming hopeless from the inside as they don’t get any concrete solution to their constant suffering.
There is a certain deadness in their face even though they may forcibly exhibit to be happy on the outside. If one has the eyes to see sharply, one can find out who is depressed and who is not.
All forced social emotions are a sign of a depressed individual.
There is a particular inner assumption behind all types of mental ache: I am incomplete, I lack something, and I expect that this special person, career, people, material wealth, or ideology will fulfill the inner void. Hence the fear of missing out.
Being alone from the psyche and comfortable is what a depressing personality is utterly sacred. They get incredibly uncomfortable with originality and depth. Victimization they connect with but facts and realities they don’t want to look at.
How to cure Depression?
By looking at the depressor ( the mind that says I am depressed) and why it persists in remaining like that.
Instead, why doesn’t one develop the inner determination to get rid of Depression once and for all is the question we all have to ask when we deeply suffer.
Depression cannot be cured unless we aim to understand the subject (the depressed psyche) and not the object of Depression (behavior pattern) and not temporarily calm it with anti-depressant pills.
We need to understand this deeply, that nobody can fulfill anybody emotionally and psychologically. Till the time we know this fact, depression-free life is a rarity.
There is no limit to our wants, and at no point will anybody feel contended with the world and its promises.
No ideology, fame, money, material pleasures, or relationships can give ultimate satisfaction. We are never relaxed from the day we are born. We hope the world will provide us with completion through hopes and desires.
But, the mind’s ultimate desire for inner contentment is never fulfilled through the world. We are never ready to honestly acknowledge this fact despite a series of heartbreaks and disappointments.
Even if the mind gets what it desires, it loses interest and hops to a new desire.
If anything is not trustworthy and unreliable, it is our shallow minds. At regular intervals, it keeps changing its object of desire.
What looks necessary to the mind today looks useless a while later. What attracts it today repulses it later. What excites it today frustrates it later. Nothing satisfies the mind completely.
The mind is never at home. It wants more money, more fame, more power, more love, more houses, more food, more sex, more appreciation, more gratification, and more this and more that. Hence, the inner void persists lifelong.
Mind, by its nature, is a product of inbuilt bodily tendencies, influences, and borrowed concepts. It is precarious, reactive, and willing to believe than understand.
Also, one needs to sharply observe where one spends time the whole day, what keeps the mind occupied, whether my job gives me satisfaction or makes my life even more stressful, what my beliefs and opinion are, and whether it uplifts or degrades the psyche, the type of social circle, and the quality of one’s relationship and so on.
Since we have little to no understanding of who we are, overconsumption lifestyle and subsequent mood disorders (stress, anxiety, Depression, OCD, hypertension, drug habits, teen gun issues, hypersexuality, possessiveness, jealousy, uncontrollable envy, bipolar disorder, anger issues, etc.) happen.
How to put an end to the Depression?
The only direct way to overcome Depression and anxious behavior is to stop looking for inner gratification in the wrong places, as we discussed a while back.
Reach out to wisdom books and authentic wisdom teachers who talk in detail about the suffering mind and how to see falseness in daily living.
Our shallowness, inability to see and misassumptions about the relationship between mind and world are the root cause of all mental heaviness.
The core assumption of who we take ourselves to be is the actual disease. Why? It’s the immediate psyche that is experiencing mental turbulences of all sorts. So, our current mental state needs to be the subject of cure.
No neo spirituality is willing to talk about this but wants us to focus on breathing techniques, energy healing, energy exchange, spiritual awakening, tantric activities, yoga, and meditation. It won’t help us holistically, as they fail in helping get rid of the sufferer.
Instead, it makes the sufferer (our mind) even more robust, and we stay as we are. And suffering continues.
If you want to end all mental commotion, go straight to the timeless wisdom texts and teachers who talk extensively about the mind and its suffering and nothing extra.
Ask yourself, one beautiful life we are bestowed with, why live lovelessly in Depression and other forms of mental heaviness?
Instead, why not try these wisdom works of literature that hold the key to the door to mental lightness.
Living in tension is not a mandate. Keep introspecting within, become a better person than you were in the past, and keep moving towards higher living. That’s the true purpose of life.
Best Overcoming Depression Quotes and Sayings
The more you see and accept reality, the more you will understand and love yourself.
– Maxime Lagace
Life begins on the other end of despair.
– Jean-Paul Sartre
There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering.
– Alan Watts
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over, But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in.
– Haruki Murakami
Depression is, in part, grief for your own life not turning out how it should; grief for your own needs not being met.
– Johann Hair
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
– Rumi
We cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever. We must stand up and move on to the next action.
– Haruki Murakami
Don’t cling to yesterday. It was beautiful, but it was yesterday.
– Osho
Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colourful the world is.
– Atticus
No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever. The storm is just passing over.
– Lyanla Vanzant
All obstacles that are perceived with love can transform into the greatest life lessons.
– Gabby Bernstein
Step out of the history that is hiding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.
– Oprah Winfrey
Promise me you will always remember. You are braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
– Winnie the Pooh
Real change requires a desire to change.
– Gabby Bernstein
Love your future more than your past.
– Joe Dispenza
The fundamental delusion – there is something out there that will make me happy and fulfilled forever.
– Gabby Bernstein
We know you are tired and sacred. Happens to everyone, okay? Just dont let your feet stop.
– Haruki Murakami
Do not stumble on something behind you.
– Seneca
It is easy to be heavy. Hard to be light.
– G.K. Chesterton
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
– Sophocles
Only stepping outside of old ruts will bring new insights.
– Andy Groove
Even lost and alone, I kept moving forward. Even sacred and confused, I kept moving forward. In the end, that’s what you must do: keep moving forward.
– Maxime Lagace
Nothing has a hold on your mind that you cannot break free of.
– Lyanla Vanzant
It’s not too late to recover. You are young, you are tough. You are adaptable. You can patch up your wounds, lift up your head and move on.
– Haruki Murakami
Do not get lots in a sea of despair. Do not become bitter or hostile. Be hopeful, be optimistic.
– John Lewis
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realise that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.
– Eckhart Tolle
I was only able to start changing my life when I realised my depression was not a malfunction. It’s a signal. Your depression is a signal. It’s telling you something.
– Johann Hair
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure that you are not surrounded by assholes.
– Sigmund Freud
We are always trying to build a bridge between ‘what is’ and ‘what should be’. And in that there is contradiction and conflict.
– Jiddu Krishnamutri
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