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You are suffering depth’s inability to effuse the world with boundless love and truth, with your boundless love and truth. If you allow yourself to feel this suffering, even amidst life’s goodness, then your heart can open beyond delusion. When you no longer need to distract yourself in affection and comfort, then you can enjoy your family’s love a
... See moreDavid Deida • Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life & Death and Love & Sex
is it any more delusional than believing that only your suffering and your pain are authentic? Or that you are alone—that you have no relationship whatsoever with the universe that created you? Or that you have been singled out by destiny as specially cursed?
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Joy is not a function of a life free of friction and frustration, but a function of focus — an inner elevation by the fulcrum of choice. So often, it is a matter of attending to what Hermann Hesse called, as the world was about to come unworlded by its first global war, “the little joys”; so often, those are the slender threads of which we weave th... See more
Maria Popova • Essential Life-Learnings from 14 Years of Brain Pickings
Joy is not a function of a life free of friction and frustration, but a function of focus — an inner elevation by the fulcrum of choice. So often, it is a matter of attending to what Hermann Hesse called, as the world was about to come unworlded by its first global war, “the little joys”; so often, those are the slender threads of which we weave th... See more
Maria Popova • Essential Life-Learnings from 14 Years of Brain Pickings
Even in the whorl of our own personal tragedies, when the cosmos appears at its most chaotic and impartial, I have come to see the world, in its complexity, rearranging itself toward meaning.