There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
Suffering = Pain x Resistance
As long as something wants to arise, let it. As long as something wants to last, let it. As soon as something wants to pass, let it.
Ultimately, meditation can allow us to have happiness independent of conditions and that is one heck of an awesome claim
The ultimate expression of meditation comes when we can feel all the pains of the world, experience them with mindfulness and equanimity so they dissolve into energy, and then recolor that energy and radiate it out as unconditional love, moment by moment, through every pore of our being.
I think the problems of the world aren't caused by people coming together and saying «let's make problems». They're caused by people coming together and saying «let's make solutions» without having solved the problem of their own suffering.
Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering.
I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's done.
I was compiling a list in my head titled 'Reasons to Get Up: You Don't Have to Leave, but You Can't Pee Here.
The speed is something dangerous but very exciting.
Shouldn't someone give a pep talk or something?" Minho asked, pulling Thomas's attention away from Alby. "Go ahead," Newt replied. Minho nodded and faced the crowd. "Be careful," he said dryly. "Don't die.