Moving into our experience - whether it's the opening experience of love and compassion or the closing-down experience of resentment and separation - brings us an enormous sense of freedom: the freedom of nothing solid.
Something about "nothing solid" begins to equal freedom.
In the meantime, we discover that we would rather feel fully present to our lives than be off trying to make everything solid and secure by engaging our fantasies or addictive patterns.
We realize that connecting with our experience by meeting it feels better than resisting it by moving away.
Being on the spot, even if it hurts, is preferable to avoiding.
- Pema Chödrön, Comfortable with Uncertainty, p. 43
(I'm not sure I buy into this entirely; comments added. What do you think?)
Something about "nothing solid" begins to equal freedom.
In the meantime, we discover that we would rather feel fully present to our lives than be off trying to make everything solid and secure by engaging our fantasies or addictive patterns.
We realize that connecting with our experience by meeting it feels better than resisting it by moving away.
Being on the spot, even if it hurts, is preferable to avoiding.
- Pema Chödrön, Comfortable with Uncertainty, p. 43
(I'm not sure I buy into this entirely; comments added. What do you think?)
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