Other people’s words – Part V

… it means not putting so much energy into making something go away. Anxieties like stage fright, at bottom, are a turning against the self. I think it’s much more fruitful to try to be on good terms with every side of one’s personality.

from
Stage fright: classical music’s dark secret
Daily Telegraph, 3 July 2014

Life is a stage sometimes, I think.

♦

It sounds good, doesn’t it? — living without turning against yourself.

Note:
I’d like to thank my mother for alerting me to this article, and in particular this quote from it.