Heart Advice Quote of the Week from Pema Chodron

Don't Be Predictable

We are 100 percent predictable in that if we don't like something we'll run the other way, and if we do like it we'll spend quite a lot of time and effort trying to somehow eat it whole. If someone does something nice for you, you always remember it and you want to repay their kindness. But if somebody hurts you, you remember it for the rest of your life and you always want to get revenge in one way or another. That's the meaning of this slogan "Don't be so predictable." Don't always react so predictably to pleasure and pain. Don't keep taking the wrong medicine for the illness.

Excerpted from:
Start Where You Are
A Guide to Compassionate Living
by Pema Chödrön,
page 117

Paul DiSegna January 1, 2020