“Rather than running from my agony, I had to sit … and sit … and sit … with it. The long fingers of anxiety gripped me and shook me to my core. In many ways, it sucked. But overall, the experience offered me access to a new place deep within myself: a place of peace.”
— MeiMei Fox on Vipassana 10 day silent meditation. (my feelings exactly)
“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Our practice is to cultivate good seeds in the soil of our mind, knowing that they will mature and bloom in their own time.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
February 25, 2018 <3
#abeautifulcompositionofbroken #rhsin
He has a theory that we are attracted to people who look like us, that’s why so many people look like their significant others.
Maybe it’s because we want to find ourselves in someone else…and so in a way, when we love that person, we are also loving ourselves.
When I am loving you, I am loving me.
Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.
The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.
terracemuse