The intelligent way of working with emotions is to try to relate to their basic substance. The basic “isness” quality of the emotions, the fundamental nature of the emotions, is just energy. And if one is able to relate with the energy, then the energies have no conflict with you. They become a natural process.
Chögyam Trungpa, The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation
The more you can free yourself from
your internalization of the gaze of others,
the more liberated you feel…[and]…the more you will unleash the healthy energies of the mind.
Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Under your Skin
If you say that getting money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time.
You’ll be doing things you don’t like in order to go on living, that is, to go on doing things you don’t like doing, which is stupid.
Alan Watts
Task: to be where I am.
Even when I’m in this solemn and absurd
role: I am still the place
where creation works on itself.
Tomas Tranströmer, 1931 – 2015, Swedish poet and psychologist, Guard Duty [extract]
Having no destination, I am never lost.
Ikkyuu, 1394-1481, Zen Buddhist monk and poet
Can’t just “let it go”?
That’s because emotions are not like rocks we can drop and throw.
They are more like drops of water that need to run through us.
So don’t let it go
Let it flow
Lori Deschene, Tiny Buddha blog
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