PART II

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE NEUROSES

Personally, I am more and more convinced that the cure for sentiment, as for all the weakened forms of strong things, is not to refuse to feel it, but to get to feel _more_ in it. This seems to me to make the whole difference between a true and a false ‘asceticism.’ The false goes for getting rid of what one is afraid of; the true goes for using it and making it serve. The one empties, the other fills; the one abstracts, the other concentrates. Don’t you think half the troubles of life come from being wrongly _afraid_ of things--especially afraid of oneself? (February, 1890.)

Richard Lewis Nettleship.