It does get easier

The acceptance of suffering is a journey into death. Facing deep pain, allowing it to be, taking your attention into it, is to enter death consciously. When you have died this death, you realize that there is no death — and there is nothing to fear. Only the ego dies. Imagine a ray of sunlight that has forgotten it is an inseparable part of the sun

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now. Let’s say that you are wishing you could change yourself. But changing yourself means giving up on, denying, and never again showing the face of “yourself until now,” as if you were sending it to its grave, in effect. Because once you have done that, you will be reborn as your “new self” at last. Now, regardless of how dissatisfied you may be

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