Healing

The next time you think, “If only—” or “It would be better if—,” instead of simply following that thought, make space to recall that this dissatisfaction, this dukkha, is the first seal. It’s what everyone you know feels all the time. Let yourself be knocked off balance by the realization that in this way, you are deeply connected to everyone you’v... See more

“If we are absolutely grounded in the absolute love of God that protects us from nothing even as it sustains us in all things, then we can face all things with courage and tenderness and touch the hurting places in others and in ourselves with love.”

-James Finley, Intimacy: The Divine Ambush

Having a transformative experience teaches you something new, something that you could not have known before having the experience, while also changing you as a person. Such experiences are very important from a personal perspective, for transformative experiences can play a significant role in your life, involving options that, speaking metaphoric... See more

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

Active nonviolence begins with the truth that all life is sacred, that we are all equal sisters and brothers, all children of the God of peace, already reconciled, all one, all already united, and so we could never hurt or kill another human being, much less remain silent while wars rage, people die in poverty, and nuclear weapons and environmental... See more

“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.”

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Pema Chodron

the key distinction about “feeling your feelings” is trying NOT to fall into the old patterns of rumination “thinking about the story of why you’re upset” is very different from “feeling the underlying raw emotion” and it’s so easy to slip from the feeling to the story