"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
Respecting OurselvesThe whole process of meditation is one of creating that good ground, that cradle of loving-kindness where we actually are nurtured. What's being nurtured is our confidence in our own wisdom, our own health, and our own courage, our own goodheartedness. We develop some sense that the way we are—the kind of personality that ...
"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations