Terry Phillips

“The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won't want to let it in.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra

“They say that people are innately afraid of those who need them, they say that people are afraid of "clingy-ness", afraid of attachment, afraid of being needed by another. But I beg to disagree. I believe that people, when looking at someone who is needy of them, see themselves and see their own fears and they go away because they can't handle those fears; it's their own neediness that they're afraid of! They're afraid to want and to need, because they're afraid of loss and of losing, so when they see these things in another, that's when they run away. Nobody is actually running away from other people; everybody is really running away from themselves!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“We get attached to people, a job, material things and a certain state of being. And, when something around us changes we suffer.

Release the need to control people, release the believe there is only one job you can do, release the need to accumulate material things, welcome the unknown and set yourself free.”
― Ana Ortega