Optimal grip
Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight
... See more‘We are in the habit of exaggerating, or imagining, or anticipating, sorrow.’
We suffer more in imagination than in reality – Explained
As paradoxical as it sounds, this is true. The jhanas start by feeling like a path to a special state, but eventually reveal themselves as a path that’s always been about coming home.
Like falling in love, a radical acceptance can kick off with an infatuated ecstasy and simmer
Stephen Zerfasx.compeople think they want choices. but they prefer good defaults.
If I am clenched, enraged or chaotic I cannot connect.
The Soul Work of Losing Control
I had a rough childhood and one day as a teenager when I was being particularly obnoxious in school a teacher pulled me aside and gave me a talking-to that, on a several year delay, helped this click for me in a profound way.
She said "I don't know the details, but I do know you have a hard life outside of school. But in the end, no matter how eas... See more
Russellx.comPutting the idealism and pragmatism together is forever uncomfortable. Frequently the direction set by ideals means not taking the clearest practical path. More subtly, often as you go to put principles into practice, you realize that the ideal is not quite as simple as you thought when you started.
Sari Azout • Figuring it out, again and again
@RomeoStevens76 If being stagnant stops one from seeing, the teacher points to work.
If the running away stops one from seeing, the teacher points to being still.
If not looking for the extraordinary stops one from seeing, the teacher points to the exceptional.
If the looking for the
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