“Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known.” NeedsTwoSelfDesireTurnsKnownPossibilityAnxietyOneselfDeeperWillingnessOrientation Book:Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught Source: Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught
“The willingness to face traumas - be they large, small, primitive or fresh - is the key to healing from them. They may never disappear in the way we think they should, but maybe they don’t need to. Trauma is an ineradicable aspect of life. We are human as a result of it, not in spite of it.” ThinkingWayNeedsShouldHumansMayFacesResultsHealingKeysAspectTraumaDisappearSpiteWillingnessPrimitiveAspects Of Life Author:Mark Epstein
