Sherri writes:
"I am sad reading the messages today. . .
"I believe we are experiencing the tension between fear and possibility."
I agree with much of your sentiment and several of your observations.
There is a continuum for sadness to clinical depression. This has not
been noted yet.
Eric Opp writes:
"There was recently a new report on NPR (National Public Radio here in the
US) on a study done in Norway, I believe, which showed that the most
productive and creative workers were actually those that were most gloomy
or "depressed" at work."
The way I can understand this is to substitute dysphoric or in pain
depressed. Those who are clinically depressed, even at the mild to
moderate level have decreased cognitive capacity in most cases. There
certainly is motivation in displeasure, but not depression.
Chuchill would be another example of a great leader who suffered from
depression.
Caroline Myss suggests that on a spiritual path there is always a "dark
night of the soul." I believe this is also born out in Pirsig's Zen and
the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
David C. Rupley, Jr.
dcrupley@coredcs.com
"Man's inner nature is identical with the nature of the universe, and thus
man learns about his own nature from nature herself." - Rolling Thunder
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