A quote from How to Be a Person in the World
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A quote from How to Be a Person in the World
the hardships we suffer in this world are what, unfortunately, make us wiser, humbler, softer, kinder, more loving.
Rainn Wilson • Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution
THE MOMENT THE universe put the Roosevelt quote in front of me, three lessons came into sharp focus. The first one is what I call “the physics of vulnerability.” It’s pretty simple: If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall. Daring is not saying “I’m willing to risk failure.” Daring is saying “I know I will eventually fail, and I’m still al
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The essence of life is that it’s challenging. Sometimes it is sweet, and sometimes it is bitter. Sometimes your body tenses, and sometimes it relaxes or opens. Sometimes you have a headache, and sometimes you feel 100 percent healthy. From an awakened perspective, trying to tie up all the loose ends and finally get it together is death, because it ... See more
Pema Chodron • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Hemingway wrote that although life breaks us all, some of us manage to become “strong at the broken places.”
Martha Beck • Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
The only choice we have as we mature is how we inhabit our vulnerability, how we become larger and more courageous and more compassionate through our intimacy with disappearance, our choice is to inhabit vulnerability as generous citizens of loss, robustly and fully, or conversely, as misers and complainers, reluctant and fearful, always at the gat
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