'The wilder the weather is, the more the ravens love it.'

[sabrinamari]

"How do we work with this tendency to block and to freeze and to refuse to take another step toward the unknown? If our edge is like a huge stone wall with a door in it, how do we learn to open that door and step through it again and again, so that life becomes a process of growing up, becoming more and more fearless and flexible, more and more able to play like a raven in the wind?"


'The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving Kindness,' p. 54, Pema Chodron

Comments

[oakleaves.livejournal.com]

I am all for life being a process of growing up. Gotta love them ravens.

[siobhra.livejournal.com]

We walk in steps. Right foot, left foot, right again. We also never run all the time. Run a bit, walk a bit. Body needs to recover. Same with the mind. When you have handled and digested enough of life you get a bigger plate. And seconds.
Then the blockage will be farther down life's path.