The Rabbit Hole 🕳🐇 issue no.41
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
Elizabeth Lesser • Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know…nothing ever really attacks us except our own confusion. perhaps there is no solid obstacle except our own need to protect ourselves from being touched. maybe the only enemy is that we don’t like the way reality is now and therefore wish it would go away fast. but what we find as... See more
Pema Chodron • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Sometimes reorder means sitting in the wake of particularly challenging changes and gradually moving into stability without any immediate gain or discernible value. In time we tend to find meaning and grow from these events. But in the moment, being patient and gentle on ourselves is the best, and perhaps only, course to take.