We tried. * "The next time you lose heart and you can't bear to experience what you are feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. That's basically the instruction that Dzigar Kongtrul gave me. And now I pass it on to you. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the stories that we relentlessly tell ourselves. This is priceless advice that addresses the true cause of suffering- yours, mine and that of all living beings." --Pema Chodron (Taking The Leap) * * “You don’t go to heaven, you become heaven. You don’t go to hell, you become hell. And it’s happening now.” — Richard Rohr [Center for Action and Contemplation]
