First, you must let your heart
be broken open
in a way you have never
felt before,
cannot imagine.

Dorothy Walters

Why should we grieve that we’ve been sleeping?
It doesn’t matter how long we’ve been unconscious.

We’re groggy, but let the guilt go.
Feel the motions of tenderness
around you, the buoyancy.

Rumi

This can still happen anywhere. Not everything is lost. 

"Maybe Humpty Dumpty jumped."

Rabbi Irwin Kula

“If we sit still, like a mountain in a hurricane, if we don't protect ourselves from the trueness and the vividness and the immediacy and the lack of confirmation of simply being part of life, then we are not this separate being who has to have things turn out our way.”

Pema Chödrön

"It’s ironic that the biggest potential problem associated with focusing on emotional discomfort is closely linked to one of its most powerful payoffs: our cage may get rattled a bit before it collapses."

Shinzen Young

"One of the reasons it's so difficult to focus on a small piece of experience that's neutral, like the breath, why it feels like you're just going to die—is because you are!"

Shinzen Young

It makes me feel alone
to answer to a name
I've never used.