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- When we’re focused on avoiding difficult thoughts and feelings, we’re not focused on moving toward what we care about.
from How to Do Hard Things
- Not caring what other people think and not linking my creativity to my being liked — these are non-negotiables.
from Devastate Me, Baby by Anna Fusco
- “One of the lessons that Fawn teaches us is that doubt and fear guard the path of desire. Seen in this light, then we can try to reframe fear and doubt, accepting that these feelings no longer exist as our warning to leave, but rather, the signpost affirming we are going the right direction.” -Kathryn Miller
from Devastate Me, Baby by Anna Fusco
- but what if my investment is an experiment, a question to which I don’t yet want the answer? What if I trust that ideas come on their own time?
from My Dream is Not a Baby by Anna Fusco
- The answer may not yet exist.
from #181 Dear Baby: Am I fit to be a parent?
- To quote Gil Fronsdal from a recent Dharma talk, “The path itself seems so precious; getting to the capital seems secondary.”
from My Dream is Not a Baby by Anna Fusco
- There comes a time when visiting places has less to do with touring space and everything to do with touring selves.
from The Places That Save Us by Caroline Cala Donofrio
- And when I practice letting go of how I think things are supposed to look and instead cultivate a trust in the unfolding that is taking place, often in unseen ways, the Here-ness of challenge or pain or depression or grief or (anything) softens even 5%, and that 5% adds up fast when I don’t assume it’s nothing.
from To move toward fully living
- choices are like a mini-death, where we lose a possibility of what our lives and work might become.
from Why People Fail to Make Important Choices