What passages, or entire books have been therapeutic for you?

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 02:54:01 Post No. 7574761 [Report]

What passages, or entire books have been therapeutic for you? Basically, in this thread, I would like you anons to share a passage or two that has been therapeutic for you. Not looking for motivational quotes or anything like that, just some honest, personal reflection.

Today I was reading Anna Karenina and read the part where Levin confesses his sins, so to speak, to Kitty by giving her his notebooks. The confession was that Levin had been with other women, and was a nonbeliever. Kitty was upset most by Levin's impurity, but forgives him while still denouncing his past as terrible.

I realize this isn't the deepest or most thought provoking except available in the book, but it struck a chord with me anyway. So much stuff in this book has spoken directly to my soul, to speak romantically, and has literally been more therapeutic than my antidepressants.

I find uplifting quotes or motivational stuff so puerile and vapid and useless... I figured this could be a better alternative. So, if you can be bothered, share your own.

Anonymous 2016-01-12 02:55:35 Post No.7574768
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 02:55:35 Post No.7574768 [Report]

Meditations chilled me out a lot. I'm an uncommitted fuckwad so I'll probably never live the stoic life, but it was fun to pretend :)

Anonymous 2016-01-12 02:59:26 Post No.7574785
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 02:59:26 Post No.7574785 [Report]

>>7574761
Leaves of Grass.
It inspires me to simply do something, live life, see everything as something grand and wonderfully eternal. God that man is spectacular.

Anonymous 2016-01-12 03:00:31 Post No.7574788
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 03:00:31 Post No.7574788 [Report]

>>7574761
I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery

Anonymous 2016-01-12 03:07:43 Post No.7574807
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 03:07:43 Post No.7574807 [Report]

Using art as therapy is perverted.

Anonymous 2016-01-12 03:26:51 Post No.7574866
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 03:26:51 Post No.7574866 [Report]

>>7574807
I think I agree with you there...My intention when reading isn't to seek therapy, but as a side effect, it generally improves my wellbeing.

Anonymous 2016-01-12 03:33:50 Post No.7574894
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 03:33:50 Post No.7574894 [Report]

>>7574807

Catharsis can be therapeutic.

Get off the soap box, m8.

Anonymous 2016-01-12 03:40:41 Post No.7574920
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 03:40:41 Post No.7574920 [Report]

>>7574894
When is catharsis not therapeutic?

Anonymous 2016-01-12 03:42:01 Post No.7574930
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 03:42:01 Post No.7574930 [Report]

>>7574788
Hope cannot be totally extinguished except through death.

Anonymous 2016-01-12 03:45:17 Post No.7574942
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 03:45:17 Post No.7574942 [Report]

>>7574866
I find reading higher quality literature provides a sense of "well-being" however it is a delayed but greater response than the immediate gratification of reading trash.

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