Accepting who you are doesn’t mean you should stay in situations that hurt you. I advise people, both strangers and close friends, to leave relationships when I think their care is unreciprocated or they clearly are unfulfilled. I think that if you find yourself consistently directing your love towards places or people that don’t love you back, you... See more
[Meditation teacher] Bill Hamilton had a lot of great one-liners, but my favorite concerned insight practices and their fruits, of which he said, “Highly recommended, can’t tell you why.” That is probably the safest and most accurate advertisement for enlightenment that I have ever heard.
What causes anger, stress is that things don’t go the way we expect them to. This time, expect that things will go wrong. And accept it. Expect your partner to be less than perfect, expect your friends to let you down, expect plans to go awry, expect people to be rude, expect colleagues to not do their share, expect the glass to break. And accept... See more
meditation can be like learning a bunch of cool tricks as a giant black hole gets slowly closer and closer to you every time you do a trick, and you fear the black hole, but you love doing the tricks. Then the black hole eats you and it’s so much better than any of the tricks
what you’re avoiding will unlock the next phase of your becoming. you’re scared because you don’t know how to do it, because you’ve never done it before. that won’t change until you try, until you start. you evolve by practicing and *becoming* the person that acts courageously.