“If you have embarked on this journey of self-reflection, you may be at a place that everyone, sooner or later, experiences on the spiritual path. After a while it seems like almost every moment of your life you’re there, where you realize you have a choice. You have a choice whether to open or close, whether to hold on or let go, whether to harden or soften, whether to hold your seat or strike out. That choice is presented to you again and again and again.”
– Pema Chodron, Practicing Peace
Resolve to learn tools for painless living.
So true. The most profound thought I took away from my teacher training was the ability to make decisions in the present moment. So powerful to have choice.
And sometimes the choice is “simply” (ha!) to NOT act or react in the moment. I find this particularly useful in my parenting responses.
So hard to pause for just a second and see the moment for what it is. Completely unattached from the past and capable of such joy and fun 🙂