The Clearing

The expression which we know as depression can be more clearly understood as coming to those who are not willing to be depressed, i.e.: to fall down according to the falling rhythm, or to let go when the time has come to lose. Depression is characteristically associated with over-conscientiousness, and so it is particularly liable to befall virtuous people. This is because it is their moral duty to hang on to all the good things, fixing them forever against the moving law of time...