Ways of seeing

Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we're holding back. They're like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we're stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we are. ~ Pema Chodron

 

Our experience of life is conceived -- moment to moment -- by how it's perceived; this means that before there can be a change in what is seen, there must first come a change in the nature of the seer. ~ Guy Finley

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment
as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it. ~ Guy Finley