Sublime

When we are caught in this chain of reactivity, we are in trance. We have pulled away from a larger sense of who we are and what matters in our life.

We are caught in the trance of fear and our moment-to-moment experience becomes bound in reactivity. We spend our time and energy defending our life rather than living it fully.

Mindfulness brings perspective, balance, and freedom.

for the aspiring bodhisattva, suffering is the trusted gateway to awakening the heart.

We don’t have to wait until we are on our deathbed to realize what a waste of our precious lives it is to carry the belief that something is wrong with us.

as the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh puts it, we “keep our appointment with life.”

When we abandon our body for our fear-driven stories about pain, we trap the pain in our body.

The simple action of having named the anxiety building before my talk opens my awareness. Anxiety may still be present, but the care and wakefulness I cultivate through noting allows me to feel more at home with myself.