April

“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

“... 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

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

“If I can't see around my personal story, I'll have no way to see sit in context: This is one event in a life of events. It is whatever it is, but it is temporal. The pain is terrible, but it won't last. I can manage it. or this joy is incredible, but it won't last. Celebrate it now! [pp. 104-105]”
― Sylvia Boorstein, Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life