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“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.”
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Pema Chodron
―
Pema Chodron
A quote by Pema Chödrön
[And I remember she told me once, I’ll never forget this, she said, “Look, Zen is just being present in the moment. That’s all, being fully present to what is.” She said, “This is Zen.” But she said, “But then sometimes you lose that, and you’re not present in the moment. And so Zen is just noticing that you’ve lost it and just coming back. And tha
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People fall out of love when they lose faith in the story the other person is writing. You wake up one day and think: why am I trapped inside this narrative? I don’t even like your prose.
Ava • tension and flow
“The part of yourself that you’re holding back from the relationship, is the part of yourself that needs to be healed in the relationship.”
“I said: what about my eyes?
He said: Keep them on the road.
I said: What about my passion?
He said: Keep it burning.
I said: What about my heart?
He said: Tell me what you hold inside it?
I said: Pain and sorrow.
He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
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Rumi
He said: Keep them on the road.
I said: What about my passion?
He said: Keep it burning.
I said: What about my heart?
He said: Tell me what you hold inside it?
I said: Pain and sorrow.
He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
―
Rumi