To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities — I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not — that one endures.
~Nietzsche
there is a light that we run from……we will run our whole lives to avoid it….
inquiry for today~ what light are you running from today? look over your shoulder and and take a good look…..then keep running for now…..
Everything we do- our discipline, effort, meditation, livelihood, and every single thing that we do from the moment we’re born until the moment we die- we can use to help us to realize our unity and our completeness with all things. We can use our lives, in other words, to wake up to the fact that we’re not separate: the energy that causes us to live and be whole and awake and alive is just the energy that creates everything, and we’re part of that. As always, it’s up to us.
~Pema Chodron
