Saturday, June 19, 2010

Pema Chodron to save the day.

I have been reading "When Things Fall Apart", and I enjoy posting occasional paragraphs that inspire and change my perspective.

My favorite for today:

"We proceed as if we were separate from everything else, as if we were a fixed identity, when our true situation is ego less. We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior. We waste precious time exaggerating or romanticizing or belittling ourselves with a complacent surety that yes, that's who we are. We mistake the openness of our being - the inherent wonder and surprise of each moment - for a solid, irrefutable self. Because of this misunderstanding, we suffer.

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