If you're unsatisfied you have two options. Change your experience or change your relationship to experience. The first is agency, the second is spirituality. Both capacities are important, and it takes a lifetime to get the balance right
With each dynamic tension, two perspectives that seem to contradict each other are both true and valuable. For instance, both trust and action are important,
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
Mindfulness is about learning how to change your experience of that lifestyle. It’s about finding a way to live as you are, but with an underlying sense of fulfilment. And then, if you feel as though you want to make some changes, then of course feel free.
Andy Puddicombe • The Headspace Guide to... Mindfulness & Meditation: 10 minutes can make all the difference
Given that the universe is what it is – however you understand it – what are you going to do about it? How have you personally decided to respond? What story have you decided to live by? Whether or not you know it, you are already living by a story you are telling yourself. So, what difference does your story make? Upon whom does it impact? Are you
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experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.