Via Daily Dharma: Beauty in the Breakdown

The real treasure begins in the breaking. The body breaks, things change, life ends. Only when impermanence is fully apprehended do we really have the chance to serve, to give without bargaining.

—Bonnie Myotai Treace, “The Sword Disappears in the Water”

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - February 3, 2019 💌

My own strategy is to keep cultivating the witness, that part of me that notices how I’m doing it— to cultivate the quiet place in me that watches the process of needing approval, of the smile on the face, of the false humility, of all the horrible creepy little psychological things that are just my humanity. And watching them occur again and again and again...

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