No Part Of Yourself Is Unworthy.
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No Part Of Yourself Is Unworthy.
We learn to trust our capacity to experience difficult states in a fearless way. The poet Hafiz writes, Don’t surrender your loneliness So quickly. Let it cut more deep. Let it ferment and season you As few human Or even divine ingredients can.
Jack Kornfield • The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
‘He is a collection of tissues and cells delicately and intricately conjoined and brought to life for only an instant. It will take just one sharp collision or a fall to render them inanimate again,’ realises Rabih, the quiet hero of Alain de Botton’s The Course of Love. ‘He is only a visitor who has managed to confuse his self with the world. He h
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"We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality. We sleep in a long reproachful dust against ourselves. We are full to the gorge with our own names for misery. Life, the pastures in which the night feeds and prunes the cud that nourishes us to despair. Life, the permission to know death. We were created that the earth might b
... See moreOne way or another, you come to face the truth: Everything you acquire is eventually lost. Every body you hold eventually dies. You have been waiting to give your deepest gifts, waiting to love without holding back, while your life—everyone’s life—passes. You have bartered your true destiny for false comfort and muted agony. You can stop waiting. W
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