“If you’re suicidally depressed, the soul is not advising you to kill yourself…It is suggesting you kill the false consciousness that has tricked you into believing its imprisoning concepts apply to the totality of yourself and to your own conceptions of life. Do not kill yourself; instead, rebel against the usurper who schemes in the throne room of your heart.

Speak from your heart. Show your wounds. The sterile nothingscape of depression blooms to vivid life by the embrace of the living images that rise from an open heart. And decaying verities make excellent compost.”

— Phil Rockstroh