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You Are Not Okay and Tomorrow Will Come
The whole of the ancient, master teachings on suffering come down to this: Suffering is the notion “This isn’t it,” and it’s variants such as, “I can’t bear this, it shouldn’t be happening,” and “I have to know how this will turn out” and “What if it gets worse?”
Freedom, waking up and fearlessness come down to the simplicity of, “Wait a minute, wha
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My guiding assumption was “Something is fundamentally wrong with me,” and I struggled to control and fix what felt like a basically flawed self. I drove myself in academics, was a fervent political activist and devoted myself to a very full social life. I avoided pain (and created more) with an addiction to food and a preoccupation with achievement
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while they’re still in despair. It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking, “Well, I need to work out all of this stuff myself before I can go and take action.” The truth is you never really work it out completely, especially with a constantly evolving crisis, where there’s always new news — like they’re digging anticipatory mass graves in Pakista
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the unbearable about-ness of being. By “about-ness” I meant that I felt disconnected from myself, abstracted from my own life.