What happens when you begin to feel uneasy, unsettled, queasy? Notice the panic where you instantly grab for something. That grabbing is based on hope. Not grabbing is called hopelessness. So what does it mean to admit that we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about it? That’s the compassionate thing […]
“When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no
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Stop trying so hard!! Just NOTICE what’s happening!!! Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed. You don’t make a goal out of relaxation and sensitivity. Have you ever heard of people who get tense trying to relax? If one is tense, one simply observes one’s tension. You will
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Sadness brings you eye to eye with your desires. Appreciation is fuel for change. Love gives your sadness the energy it needs to move through you so it can move on. By loving your sadness, you’re respecting your truth And freedom always follows truth. ~ Danielle LaPorte Bookmark0
Fuck unconditional love. You can’t do it. It’s an impossible goal that makes you violent inside. But you can embrace your imperfect attempts to love, your conditional search for love, your failure to reach the ideal, your sorrow, your fear, your exquisite shame, your ecstasy and your agony, your inherited ideas of love, your messy,
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Having negative events happen to you, the study found, decreases your happiness but increases the amount of meaning you have in life. Another study from 2011 confirmed this, finding that people who have meaning in their lives, in the form of a clearly defined purpose, rate their satisfaction with life higher even when they were
“The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t necessarily spoil the good things or make them unimportant” – The Doctor (from the Vincent van Gogh episode, where even after they’ve helped
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