Thought for the day #2
 

"We habitually erect a barrier called blame that keeps us from communicating genuinely with others, and we fortify it with our concepts of who's right and who's wrong. We do that with the people who are closest to us and we do it with political systems, with all kinds of things that we don't like about our associates or our society. It is a very common, ancient, well-perfected device for trying to feel better. Blame others. Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself. Rather than own that pain, we scramble to find some comfortable ground."


Pema Chodron - In the Gap Between Right and Wrong

"Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe."

Pema Chodron - When Things Fall Apart

Thank you so much for posting these Lara:)
I love reading things like this.Great reminders!

Knowing others is intelligence - knowing yourself is true wisdom

Mastering others is strength - mastering yourself is true power

If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich...


Tao Te Ching

“God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.” - Reinhold Niebuhr

(This is my favorite. I had to say it again. :D )

I've lived my life drawn between saying too much and not saying anything at all. I think sometimes I say too much on the internet. It's so much easier for me to communicate this way. It's weird because in real life I don't say much at all. I think a lot though. One day perhaps I'll learn to balance it all out. Running out of time for that I think. hmnnnnn

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.
-- Robert Greeleaf

There's so much more to my life that makes me a whole person than just my neurology. ~ Lara

People are my world; my world is my peace.

—Me