“Sadness... is not the opposite of happiness. The opposite of happiness is a closed heart.
Happiness is a heart so soft and so expansive that it can hold all of the emotions in a cradle
of openness. A happy heart is one that is larger at all times than any one emotion.
An open heart feels everything – including anger, grief, and pain – and absorbs it
into a bigger and wiser experience of reality."
Happiness is a heart so soft and so expansive that it can hold all of the emotions in a cradle
of openness. A happy heart is one that is larger at all times than any one emotion.
An open heart feels everything – including anger, grief, and pain – and absorbs it
into a bigger and wiser experience of reality."
Elizabeth Lesser
*****
“While pain is real, a good portion of what we feel is
not the pain itself, but our resistance to it.
The false ego uses pain as a defence mechanism,
and in doing so magnifies our discomfort tenfold.
In fact, we rarely experience the pure sensation of pain.
Instead, we layer on top of it fear and
anger, judgement and anxiety.
When pain arises, we have choice to make...
We can resist the pain, or we can soften our resistances,
experience the raw sensations,
and move through them into an expanded consciousness.”
Elizabeth Lesser
*****
harmonize mind and body,
overcome habits and destructive behaviours,
learn to relax...
face life and the world openly and without fear;
tap into the miracle that is living.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
*****
"My faith lifts me above my fears"
