Tim Quinn, MFT

11/30/2025

"A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. But marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament: you give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person: you're giving to the relationship. And if you realize you are in the relationship just as the other person is, then it becomes life building, a life fostering and enriching experience, not an impoverishment because you're giving to somebody else. . .

This is the challenge of a marriage. What a beautiful thing is a life together as growing personalities, each helping the other to flower, rather than just moving into the standard archetype. It's a wonderful moment when people can make the decision to be something quite astonishing and unexpected, rather than cookie-mold products."
- Joseph Campbell

From An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms p. 127

11/27/2025

❤️💔

"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could."

You know that the price of life is death, that the price of love is loss, and still you watch the golden afternoon light fall on a face you love, knowing that the light will soon fade, knowing that…

11/23/2025

This is both beautiful and terrible…

“Consciousness may be the instrument the universe invented to look inside itself, but it is a flawed instrument that keeps inverting the lens — the price of consciousness is self-consciousness. Like the tragic flaw that haunts the Greek hero, our greatest strength is also the source of our greatest suffering.”

Life is an ongoing expedition into the brambled tendrilled wilderness of ourselves, continually stymied by all we mistake for a final destination — success, superhuman strength, the love of a…

11/14/2025

I’m  personally going to be taking this advice to “heart!”

“It’s clear that spending the majority of the afternoon being sedentary isn’t great for heart health. But many people don’t have the freedom to not sit around. For example, maybe you have a job that requires long hours in front of a computer.

What can you do? Both cardiologists say that, ideally, incorporating an afternoon walk into your day is the fix. Dr. Bagila says that even a 10 to 15-minute walk can benefit heart health.”

Most people are 100% guilty of doing this.

11/13/2025

"I would offer one last rule, though it might seem paradoxical. The goal of an evening protocol is calm, positive affect and restful sleep. But this protocol can all too easily turn into rigid dogma, from which any deviation or failure to uphold itself causes stress—and that defeats the whole purpose. Instead, what you need is what psychologists refer to as a “state of surrender”—the willingness to accept what is, without resistance..."

The right preparation for a good night’s sleep is valuable for not only your physical health but your mental well-being too.

11/08/2025

This is beautiful, and something my wife and I have learned to do multiple times a day ❤️

11/05/2025

Dr. Peter Attia says wise and helpful things about alcohol. 

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10/25/2025

"A friend knows our difficulties and shadows and remains in sight, a companion to our vulnerabilities more than our triumphs, when we are under the strange illusion we do not need them. An undercurrent of real friendship is a blessing exactly because its elemental form is rediscovered again and again through understanding and mercy. All friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness. Without tolerance and mercy all friendships die."

“All friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness.”

10/15/2025

Yup.

10/12/2025