MoE

“You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.”
― Alan Watts

“Oh yes, for sure, there will be heartbreak! And you will learn to get out of your head and into your immediate embodied experience, coming out of mental stories and conclusions, and contacting the raw energy of the here and now, directly feeling the devastation of your dreams rather than intellectualizing everything away, letting the grief, anger, and sorrow of millennia surge through your pores, rather than dismissing it all as an “illusion,” or distracting yourself with fresh dreams. All”
― Jeff Foster, The Way of Rest: Finding the Courage to Hold Everything in Love

“Let life kick you off your pedestal time and time again, until you lose all interest in being on pedestals.”
― Jeff Foster, Falling in Love with Where You Are: A Year of Prose and Poetry on Radically Opening Up to the Pain and Joy of Life

“I am often struck by the dangerous narcissism fostered by spiritual rhetoric that pays so much attention to individual self-improvement and so little to the practice of love within the context of community.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions