I M Perfect lady

‎"The mind composed of ignorance or wrong view suffers from spiritual disease; it sees falsely. Seeing falsely causes it to think falsely, see falsely and act falsely. You will see that everyone, without exception, has the spiritual disease." Ajahn Buddhadasa

"In Pali, the ancient source language of Buddhism and Hinduism, the word for mental illness means "wrong view". We must be careful not to interpret this righteously, as in, If you see things differently than I, you are wrong. The wisdom lies here in the revelation that our wellness of mind hinges on how clear and true we remain to the pulse of life itself." Mark Nepo

I have said about myself, that I had a "mental breakdown" when actually I was going through a change of view.  I was beginning to see things clear and true…being at one with the pulse of life itself.  

I love this for it makes complete sense to me.  It wasn't that life was wrong, but rather my mind was comprised of ignorance and it then seen life falsely, which had me speaking and acting falsely.

I find great peace in reading this for it matches my experience.  

Here is another paragraph;

"At heart, our mental health comes out of the sacred relationship between our deepest Self and the very source of life.  The moment we distort, limit or rationalize things away from what they truly are, we start to experience the spiritual disease that Ajahn Buddhadasa speaks of."

This is why I am so vigilant if you will to try and align myself with what is, to not try and distort or rationalize or change the way things truly are; my mental health depends on it.

Of all of Mark Nepo's writing this has to be number one for me, for it echos my experience of the mind and how it can have a wrong view of life.