July 23, 2015
We can not avoid painful things in the pursuit of happiness. To push painful things down, away from the surface of our lives, leaves us to experience those painful things over and over again, until we take the time to work through those painful things…
“The innocent mistake that keeps us caught in our own particular style of ignorance, unkindness, and shut-downness is that we are never encouraged to see clearly what is, with gentleness. Instead, there’s a kind of basic misunderstanding that we should try to be better than we already are, that we should try to improve ourselves, that we should try to get away from painful things, and that if we could just learn how to get away from the painful things, then we would be happy.” ~ Pema Chodron
The longer we avoid dealing with our grief, our pain, our sadness, a misunderstanding, whatever the issue, the great the storm that brews in our lives. To choose happiness in our lives does not mean we can ignore that which makes us unhappy. Find closure, make peace, practice forgiveness…
Namaste… Pamela
