Monday

i love pema chodron

Quote o' the day:

"Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us."

-Pema Chodron

PC is my fave Buddhist writer. She's a big believer in leaning into the things that hurt us, rather than trying to escape. This helped me during childbirth, to go into the contractions (men may have a hard time understanding what I am saying, but if you have ever given birth, you know).
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Anonymous said...

I think men can relate to the "digging into" pain. Not contractions, obviously, but there have been plenty of times when I've been doing something very physically taxing (like long distance running) where letting pain just wash over you seems to make things worse. Fighting back somehow pits effort against that feeling and for some reason, yes, it seems to lessen the bite.

Tuesday, January 3, 2006 at 2:10:00 PM GMT

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