Pain is not for running from. Where else do we learn acceptance, non-resistance and courage? How else do we cultivate endurance? From pain issues the profundo note of a deep and sober joy.
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Where the boys are
To slow your thoughts, watch your thoughts. Just notice them. Don’t judge, analyze or otherwise engage with them. You have opened the door to an unsupervised classroom full of nine-year-old boys. Watch them.
A state of being
Freedom is not the freedom to do something. Freedom is freedom from something.
Obstacles
Obstacles are not for fighting against. They are for observing, examining, inquiring into.
Marcus Aurelius: “What stands in the way becomes the way.”
Alchemy (2)
Ego dies when we accept the unacceptable, and when we do it now. Ego cannot die in the future.
