Over time I'm feeling worse, not better. I feel like we were all sickeningly betrayed (and I feel it also on a very personal level) by groups that always pretended to know better: starting with 'establishment' Rs who traded principles for imaginary power, then purist leftists who are always too good for any feasible candidate, youth who have embraced a nihilistic vision of the future, and most of all the media.
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“we regard discomfort in any form as bad news. But for practitioners or spiritual warriors—people who have a certain hunger to know what is true—
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 where we're stuck."
Pema Chödron
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“disappointment, embarrassment, and all these places where we cannot feel good are a sort of death. We’ve just lost our ground completely; we are unable to hold it together and feel that we’re on top of things. Rather than realizing that it takes death for there to be birth, we just fight against the fear of death.
Reaching our limit is not some kind of punishment. It’s actually a sign of health that, when we meet the place where we are about to die, we feel fear and trembling."