Mud Therapy Quotes

will protect you from your suffering. You can’t cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It’s just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal. Therapists and friends can help you along the way, but the healing—the genuine healing, the actual real-deal, down-on-your-knees-in-the-mud change—is entirely and absolutely up to you.

The longer we continue walking the path of independence, the more deeply we sink into the mud of our corrupted thinking. Hints of emptiness sometimes sneak through and invade our awareness, but we quickly dismiss them as evidence of immaturity, neurosis, or insufficient achievements. Occasional floods of despair are flushed down the drains of therapy, pills, zeal for a new cause, drugs, new forms of pleasure, spending sprees, personal retreat and meditation, or suicide. Our foolishness remains intact; we still look for life without coming to God on his terms.