
The Dark Side of the Light Chasers

Admitting you feel rage or terrible pain or regret or some old, rotten blame does not mean these feelings are part of who you are as a person. What these feelings mean is, you need to change your thinking to be free of them. Maybe you need to stop fiddling with an old wound and stirring up these old feelings.
Augusten Burroughs • This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
We can close ourselves off from all that life has to offer, and instead feel victimized and inhibited as we cling to old and outworn attitudes. We can try to cheat life by wanting to get more than we are willing to give. Sooner or later, however, all such refusals to grow or to give up old attitudes will backfire. Because life cannot be cheated. Wh
... See moreEva Pierrakos • The Undefended Self: Living the Pathwork
The way out of our cage begins with accepting absolutely everything about ourselves and our lives, by embracing with wakefulness and care our moment-to-moment experience. By accepting absolutely everything, what I mean is that we are aware of what is happening within our body and mind in any given moment, without trying to control or judge or pull
... See moreTara Brach • Radical Acceptance
This truth must not be used to put ourselves down when our lives are going badly nor to aggrandize ourselves when our lives are going well. It is easy to distort the idea of self-responsibility into blaming ourselves for the “bad” things in our lives, or taking credit for the “good” things. The creation of our lives is not a matter of ego blame or
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