
…reative, wonderfully twisted, and utterly original people I met have been (or still are) depressed. It’s almost as if the very extremity of their suffering allows them to tap into the deepest depths of their being, making them more indomitably alive.
The purpose of life is right in front of us: It’s to create a reality we want to inhabit — to reach towards the better end of our conscious experience. At each moment, in every second of life, we are given a choice about how we want to conduct ourselv…