David Dimatteo

“However, no matter what the size, color, or shape is, the point is still to lean toward the discomfort of life and see it clearly rather than to protect ourselves from it.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

“Death in everyday life could also be defined as experiencing all the things that we don’t want. Our marriage isn’t working; our job isn’t coming together. Having a relationship with death in everyday life means that we begin to be able to wait, to relax with insecurity, with panic, with embarrassment, with things not working out.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

“Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time—that is the basic message.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

“I was a swell guy. I enjoyed being me.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely