For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is to let it rain.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

sometimes I just don’t know how to move from here….

inquiry for today~ how will you see with fresh eyes?

when I feel blue…

Be easier on yourself. Lower your standards a smidge – unless you’re doing brain surgery or something similar, you can likely afford to lighten up a little.

Be realistic about how long things really take, and how often there’s a slip ‘twixt cup and lip in the affairs of mice and men. Try not to make commitments that will be hard to fulfill; don’t write checks with your mouth that your body can’t cash.

Remember that you are a fundamentally good person. Even if you lower the pressure and a few things get done more slowly or not at all, you are still a good person.

Keep coming back to this moment – in which things are probably usually basically all right. Not perfect but consider the Third Zen Patriarch’s teaching that enlightenment means (among other things) no anxiety about imperfection. At this moment, you are likely safe enough, fed enough, and loved enough.

You can lower the pressure.

~Rick Hanson