Leslie Liszak
@lambster
Leslie Liszak
@lambster
Practice is not about overcoming human problems. It’s not about becoming serene and transcendent. It’s about embracing our lives as they really are, and understanding at every point how deep and profound and gorgeous everything is—even the suffering, even the difficulty. So we forgive ourselves for our limitations, and we forgive this world for its
... See moreHokusai’s Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji series, the first of which is The Great Wave.
It can be worth forgoing marriage for sex, and it can be worth forgoing sex for marriage. It can be worth forgoing parenthood for work, and it can be worth forgoing work for parenthood. Every case is orthogonal to all the others. That’s the entire problem.
Sex is that paradoxical combination of vulnerability and assertion, giving ourselves up and wanting all the more.

from Ben Franklin’s journal