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- And when I practice letting go of how I think things are supposed to look and instead cultivate a trust in the unfolding that is taking place, often in unseen ways, the Here-ness of challenge or pain or depression or grief or (anything) softens even 5%, and that 5% adds up fast when I don’t assume it’s nothing.
from To move toward fully living
Pin and added
- Too many people think the grass is greener somewhere else but grass is green where you water it, remember that.
alex and added
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” -Jack Kornfield
Amit Cohen and added
Likewise, when your mind starts telling you what you have to do to make everything inside okay, don’t buy into what it’s telling you. The truth is, everything will be okay as soon as you are okay with everything. And that’s the only time everything will be okay.
from The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer
Harold T. Harper and added
You become so overwhelmed by your life situation that you lose your sense of life, of Being. Or you are carrying in your mind the insane burden of a hundred things that you will or may have to do in the future instead of focusing your attention on the one thing that you can do now.
from The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
But to the extent that we can stop demanding certainty that things will go our way later on, we’ll be liberated from anxiety in the only moment it ever actually is, which is this one. Incidentally, I also don’t take Krishnamurti
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
But to the extent that we can stop demanding certainty that things will go our way later on, we’ll be liberated from anxiety in the only moment it ever actually is, which is this one. Incidentally, I also don’t take Krishnamurti
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman