Marion Milner
Marion Milner
Marion Milner, sometimes known as Marion Blackett-Milner, was a British author and psychoanalyst. Outside psychotherapeutic circles, she is better known by her pseudonym, Joanna Field, as a pioneer of introspective journaling...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPsychologist
passion blood leaving
by taking notice of those feelings and images that seemed to be in my blood and bones rather than in my head, I had found myself able to behave, not less reasonably, but more so. Apparently it was as much a false extreme to try and live by reason alone, leaving the passions out of count, as to ignore reason and put passion in its place as the guiding force of life.
life worry alive
I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.
eye likes painting
The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.
children cutting garden
I want to feel myself part of things, of the great drift and swirl: not cut off, missing things, like being sent to bed early as a child, the blinds being drawn while the sun and cheerful voices came through the chink from the garden.
feelings language evidence
Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.
knows ifs
Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy one would know the things that were necessary in one's life.
spiritual acceptance giving
until you have, once at least, faced everything you know - the whole universe - with utter giving in, and let all that is 'not you' flow over and engulf you, there can be no lasting sense of security. Only by being prepared to accept annihilation can one escape from that spiritual 'abiding alone' which is in fact the truly death-like state.
life believe miserable
Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.
roots causes obstacles
There seemed to be endless obstacles - it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
time understanding growth
The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.