I love quotes.
Comments from others which summarize a lot in a few short words.
Often based on experience.
Regularly involving hard won lessons.
Below are a bunch of quotes and notes that have come through in the past few weeks.
A theme I am noticing is that we are presented with opportunities to change and it’s up to us to take them.
Oh, and, change is uncomfortable.
Also seeing Pema Chödrön showing up routinely.
There may be something here for you…
Recent Quotes etc.
“Changing and improving your life requires you to destroy a part of yourself and replace it with a newer, better part of yourself. Therefore, growth is, by definition, painful.” — Mark Manson
“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.”
— Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart
“Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.”
— Adyashanti
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”
— Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart
Dropping this one in from a friend who sent this to me. A lighthouse human…something worth striving for.
