Megan

“The society that denies its poverty and injustice has lost a part of its freedom as well. If we deny our dissatisfaction, our anger, our pain, our ambition, we will suffer. If we deny our values, our beliefs, our longings, or our goodness, we will suffer.”
― Jack Kornfield, Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

“Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“As the Persian mystic Rumi instructs us, “When you go to a garden, do you look at thorns or flowers? Spend more time with roses and jasmine.”
― Jack Kornfield, Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

“Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.”
― Jack Kornfield, Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are