Well, it's late here, and I have a loooooong day at work tomorrow. Had dinner with some colleagues tonight, and laughed harder than I have in a long time. So nice! But, before I head off to bed, I wanted to share some words from Pema Chodron in her book Comfortable With Uncertainty. I LOVE this book, because it seems like the theme of my life for the past 6 months, and into the foreseeable future, is uncertainty. Actually, if you think about it, that's the theme of everyone's life, although we trick ourselves into thinking that things are much more solid and stable than they actually are...anyhow, here it is...words to LIVE by:
Moving into our experience--whether it's the opening experience of love and compassion or the closing-down experience of resentment and separation--brings us an enormous sense of freedom: the freedom of nothing solid. Something about "nothing solid" begins to equal freedom. In the meantime, we discover that we would rather feel fully present to our lives than be off trying to make everything solid and secure by engaging our fantasies or our addictive patterns. We realize that connecting with our experience by meeting it feels better than resisting it by moving away. Being on the spot, even if it hurts, is preferable to avoiding. As we practice moving in the present moment this way, we become more familiar with groundlessness, a fresh state of being that is available to us on an ongoing basis. This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted, and shaky--that's called liberation.
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