NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 1096

 

• ·       Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting. - Joyce Meyer

  ·       “Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?” - Pema Chödrön

  ·       “A further sign of health is that we don’t become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it’s time to stop struggling and look directly at what’s threatening us.” - Pema Chödrön

  ·       “The very first noble truth of the Buddha points out that suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we believe that things last—that they don’t disintegrate, that they can be counted on to satisfy our hunger for security.” - Pema Chödrön

  ·       “Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time—that is the basic message.” - Pema Chödrön

  ·       “The essence of life is that it’s challenging. Sometimes it is sweet, and sometimes it is bitter. Sometimes your body tenses, and sometimes it relaxes or opens. Sometimes you have a headache, and sometimes you feel 100 percent healthy. From an awakened perspective, trying to tie up all the loose ends and finally get it together is death, because it involves rejecting a lot of your basic experience. There is something aggressive about that approach to life, trying to flatten out all the rough spots and imperfections into a nice smooth ride.” - Pema Chödrön