We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment.
Pema ChodronAll the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.
Pema ChodronBeing fully present isnโt something that happens once and then you have achieved it; itโs being awake to the ebb and flow and movement and creation of life, being alive to the process of life itself.
Pema Chodron