The central question of a warrior’s training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort. How do we practice with difficulty, with our emotions, with the unpredictable encounters of an ordinary day?
Author Archives: Teresa Nizza
Love is…
Love is not something you can buy nor something you can attain or work up to, because you already have it, it is your deepest identity. Richard Rohr
You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist. Bill Schulz
Your life is not about you. You are about life. Richard Rohr
Unlimited Joy
As we train in unblocking our basic goodness, we’ll find that every moment contains the free-flowing openness and warmth that characterize unlimited joy. Pema Chodron
Enlightenment
Enlightenment is already here; we just need to touch it and know it and trust it. First we make a journey through our resistance, knowing its every nuance, its strategies and exits. In this way, we uncover that awareness. Pema Chodron
George Saunders, a best-selling author and New Yorker contributor, delivered one of the most popular commencement speeches in history at Syracuse University in May of 2013. The speech was only 11 minutes with 1,699 works. It focused on the importance of kindness and fearlessness and the risk of stressing about success. It was shared more than 1 million times online in the first few days of posting.
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder. John O’Donoghue
Choose Clarity and Happiness
Moving toward clarity and happiness is a choice. As human beings, we have the ability to wake up and to live more consciously yet our inclination is to stay asleep.
It may seem as if we are often at a crossroad – choosing which way to go. In each moment, we can choose to move toward clarity and happiness or toward confusion and pain…
Today, let’s choose to focus on moving toward clarity and happiness.
Paraphrased from Pema Chodron Taking the Leap
