Valerie’s Reviews > Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change > Status Update

"words. And we not only vow to not harm, Patrul Rinpoche says, we also commit to doing the opposite: We help. We heal. We do everything we can to benefit others."
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"It also gives us the space to notice how the mind immediately tries to entertain us or come up with scenarios of escape or revenge or do whatever else it does to try to provide security and comfort."

"Our identity, which seems so reliable, so substantial, is in fact very fluid, very dynamic. There are unlimited possibilities to what we might think, what we might feel, and how we might experience reality. We have what it takes to free ourselves from the suffering of a fixed identity and connect with the fundamental slipperiness and mystery of our being, which has no fixed identity."

"Everything in you will want to do the habitual thing, will want to pursue the story line. The story line is associated with certainty and comfort. It bolsters your very limited, static sense of self and holds out the promise of safety and happiness. But the promise is a false one; any happiness it brings is only temporary. [...more]"

"'Ego clinging' - It's how we try to put solid ground under our feet in an ever-shifting world." .... "Often the first blow to the fixed identity is precipitated by a crisis. When things start to fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling, but actually it's your fixed identity that's crumbling."