April

“... although I knew what issues had been most difficult for me in my life, I may not have known the depth of the feeling I had about them. ... When those stories, with their feelings, returned ... I paid attention to them. What I tell people now it, 'Try to keep your mind hospitable. This needs to visit for a while. Don't be afraid.' [p. 122]”
― Sylvia Boorstein, Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life

“The end of health or of vigor is sad. [p. 149]”
― Sylvia Boorstein, Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life

“Being different conditions you toward cautiousness, even as it demands that you be bold.”
― Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

“Sadness isn't a kilesha, a habit pattern evoked by challenge. Sadness sis what the mind feels when it is bereaved or bereft. All the wisdom in the world about the inevitability of change or the lawfulness of does not ease the heaviness in the mind that we feel when we lose someone, or something, we hold dear [p. 148]. ”
― Sylvia Boorstein, Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life