“In the very observation of pain, a tiny window of freedom has opened up in which you have the ability to choose how you will relate to the painful sensations in that moment-and in the next, and the next after that. With mindfulness you have brought an entirely new element into the pain-of-the-stubbed-toe equation, and because of that you have changed your relationship to the sensation in your toe. And in doing so, you actually experience the pain differently. You still feel pain, but you are liberated from the reactivity of the mind.”
Source: Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body, and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond
“We have a choice, a choice not about whether to experience pain, but about our relationship to that pain or how we interpret it. This is the difference between pain and suffering.”
Source: Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body, and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond
“We have a choice, a choice not about whether to experience pain, but about our relationship to that pain or how we interpret it. This is the difference between pain and suffering. It is sometimes said about life that pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.”
Source: Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body, and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond
“Blake crooned cartoonishly to mock the top 40 hits on the radio. He considered these musicians beneath him, sellouts, but his envy was so obvious to me, and I felt closer to him - and distracted from my dread - by seeing into the feelings he’d never admit to.”
Source: The Atmospherians
“Why? Driving yourself into the ground, for what? Stop hiding behind your anger and low self-esteem. It doesn't belong to you!”
“Grow into the unique person you were meant to be”
“We don't naturally fall into perfect relationship; we create them”
Source: Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
“I had trusted him. I had even trusted him after he betrayed me. I was too open for my own good. I still gave that man my heart even after he destroyed it.”
Source: Let Love Rule
“Love isn't enough. I never used to understand that expression, but I do now. You can love someone completely and it still isn't enough to make it work.”
Source: Too Good to Be True
“Could you have a real friendship if some part of you was always expecting betrayal?”
Source: A Little Life