All my friends are finding new beliefs.

This one converts to Catholicism and this one to trees.

the sooner you make an attempt despite the fear the sooner you can make an additional attempt. as you put off your initial attempt, you are putting off the entire series that would then constitute the very practice which is required to develop skill so that you no longer fear it

“I’m trying to encapsulate that feeling, a sort of ode to that feeling when Emma Thompson stands there and cries when she’s holding the CD in Love Actually . The lyrics are about the confirmation that my relationship was dead, and it’s the only song I’ve ever cried during the vocal take which has never happened before.”

The Buddha proclaimed, “I teach liberation through non-clinging.”

I might be terrified, but I’ll still be obedient to what I’m supposed to do.

If you have found human beings like this, I hope you protect them. I hope you risk your heart for what you feel. I hope you believe that you are worthy of something full, and pointed and real. I hope you never settle for less, because certain people are truly just rare, beautiful drops of borrowed light that find their way to you.

The frustration at losing the life you’ve dreamed of is then important because you have to remember what you’re losing. Every choice that we make closes the door to numerous other choices that were available, one road taken means that another is forever unavailable, we can’t go back in time and redo our lives. Even if we were to return to the same ... See more