Found a nice post. Heres part of it: I’m all for choice; it’s a phenomenal way to bring autonomy and direction to a seemly directionless situation. It means taking responsibility for our situations and actions, and yes, even our feelings. I understand that choosing happiness shapes the way we intend to view a situation, a day, a life circumstance. It’s realizing that where we set our sights and send our energy creates our experiences—and that’s all well and good and I not only believe it, I promote it. But can’t we choose—everything? Can’t we choose sad and afraid and enraged, too? And as equally worthy of our curiosity and holding? I’m also all for joy. I’m for wild, uncontainable laughter and reckless abandon and delight and bliss and fervent, ecstatic elation. But I’m also for despair, and melancholy, and outrage and disconnection and heartache. I’m for becoming intimately acquainted with the “visitors” to our lives and, as Rumi wrote, welcoming and entertaining them all. Perhaps a better aspiration than happy is for peace and authenticity in each moment. Perhaps the practice I’d encourage is a delicate cradling of each experience, painful or delicious, and a keen interest in what it has to teach and share. I like to believe that by sinking into the moment, or feeling, rather than posting-eating-pouring-hiding-tweeting, we see that feelings are so multilayered, and so changeable, that the feeling we thought we were afraid of isn’t the feeling that we’re having after all. It’s something new, and maybe it’s beautiful or terrifying, but it’s yours. And I hope that by welcoming all of these experiences into the bright tapestry of our being, we find something greater and more lasting than happiness. We find awakening.
Posted on: Fri, 02 May 2014 01:35:04 +0000
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