it is a thorny undertaking, and more so than…

it is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering is that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque deaths of its innermost folds, to pick out and an immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

— from The Mind in the Cockpit · How to Live by Sarah Bakewell

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