“The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute.
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“The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute.
life is like getting into a boat that’s just about to sail out to sea and sink.
Pema Chodron • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics)
“If I mess up, the worst will happen.” If this is your fear, you are afraid that the earth is going to fall out from under you at any moment. There’s no secure ground.
Chris McAlister • Figure That Shift Out
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“The Guide says that there is an art to flying,” said Ford, “or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
Douglas Adams • The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Five Novels in One Outrageous Volume
"When a cat falls out of a tree, it lets go of itself. The cat becomes completely relaxed, and lands lightly on the ground. But if a cat were about to fall out of a tree and suddenly make up its mind that it didn’t want to fall, it would become tense and rigid, and would be just a bag of broken bones upon landing.
In the same way, it is the philosop
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That’s both the good news and the bad news: this is it. When we really see that’s true, we cannot help but laugh at our old pretensions, our old sense of specialness, our old certainty about the wonders we were going to find at the end of the rainbow. We’ve spent years facing the wall so that…well, so that we could spend years facing a wall. We hav
... See moreBarry Magid • Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide
I’m not afraid to die, Aomame reassured herself. What I’m afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
It doesn’t get any less scary. All that happens is that you have less life left. It helps if you do your falling early, and it really helps if you do your reaching early.“
Jessica Jacolbe • Mary H.K. Choi (Interview)
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