A Quote by Sheila Heti
You don't go to tarot readers or psychics when everything's going well. It's always evidence of rock-bottom.
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I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.
I had just broke in and everything was going so well, to have it all ripped away like that is not nice. That's part of football, and that stuff happens all the time. You go from the highest of highs, and then it's taken away and you're from there to rock bottom.
I'm always on the go. I love doing things until I hit rock bottom. Then I need my 12 hours of sleep, and I'm on the go again.
A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.
People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.
Sometimes God lets you hit rock bottom so that you will discover He is the Rock at the bottom.
The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
Rock bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things unbearable...Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It's a failure of vision, a failure to see the world as it is, to see the good in what it is, and only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do and not some other way.
We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
You always have the memory of the bottom, and fear of the bottom. And when you start going to the bottom you panic.
I don't believe in rock bottom. Rock bottom is like a fishing term.
I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.
Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.
The thing about tarot - maybe this to me is the difference between it and working with a psychic - to me it's clarifying the things that you already know. I don't feel like any tarot reading I've done or received was particularly surprising. They always speak to things that you kind of felt already.
God may allow us at times to hit rock bottom, to show us He's the rock-at the bottom.
I want to thank my amateur trainer. We started at the bottom together. Just because you were born at the bottom doesn't mean you have to stay at the bottom. After Saturday night, we're going to put that bologna away and go get a steak.
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