We usually take ourselves too seriously;
This is one way the self fools us.
Most of us understand that life is bigger than the little “me” that bars the way to ease, freedom, peace, confidence, faith and so on.
Ajahn Sundara, Seeing the Silliness of Me
Once you know that there is something other than what you have bitten into most of the time, your choices take on a new kind of karmic significance… This process slowly tunes you back into the harmony of things. It’s like, if you’re driving to school and you are in a hurry and the traffic becomes a terrible opposition to you, you struggle to move faster and faster. But you could take a breath and say, ‘Well, I’m in traffic; when I get to school, I’ll get to school; I am doing the best that I can, but it is also about this moment.’ You open yourself up to the flow and accept that there is a certain rate at which the traffic moves.
Ram Dass
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