The door to happiness opens outward.
Kierkegaard is the man who made this statement, but Viktor Frankl built an entire school of psychology upon it.
The key to overcoming my problem is through this. While I am distracted by my anxiety - by my obsession - and with it, a relentless sense of self observation, somehow, repeating this mantra, encouraging myself to pursue other thoughts, by some magical power, my mind calmly engages different ideas. This in itself is liberating. But the wicked perk of it all is that when I reflect on how I look, I dont have any sense of 'embarassment' or discomfort. I feel natural simply because, as Frankl once said: "for
the true man, however, is not concerned about some condition in his
soul
but about objects in the world; he is primarily ordered and directed to
them, and it is only the neurotic man who is no longer, as is the normal
man, objectively oriented; rather he, the neurotic, is primarily
interested in His own subjective condition."
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