“There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
Christopher Morley
Quotes
“The more aware I can be of fear-based feelings when they arise and the more I consciously make an effort to always be dismissing them, the more my world gains color and depth. I don’t feel like I need a lot of things anymore, what’s around me is pretty amazing by itself and I can be quite happy with it. The best thing I can do to improve my life is to avoid immersing myself in mental projection of possible futures.”
Delusion Damage
“Desire is in fact a form of suffering, it makes you feel disturbed that you don’t have something, and it makes you believe you can’t let yourself be happy until you have that something. Maybe it’s time to decide that you will let yourself be happy no matter what happens in the external world. Be mindful of this in your daily life and bit by bit the suppressed natural happiness will emerge from within you.”
Delusion Damage
“When everything’s an experiment, you shed the fear that comes with trying new things.”
Mig Reyes
“The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is there’s no ground.”
Pema Chödrön
On Final Things
Unfortunately, we’re likely to forget the wisdom on offer here within hours. We’ll be back to losing perspective – and overlooking the sunlight and the charm of the breeze. These are the sort of ungrateful minds we all have – which is why we continuously need the resources of art to renew our connection with the unbearable but deeply necessary truths.