#anxiety

We often look for ways to avoid suffering. Spirituality is built on the idea that we should accept it.

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Sometimes you feel paralyzed. Because a part of you is pushing for action and sabotaging it at the same time.

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Generally, we do everything to avoid it. When we feel anxiety rising, we associate it with a problem, a fear, a goal, so we act. What action will make it go away? When action isn't enough, we try something else. Or we take it personally. Another failure.

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This morning's rain made me realize that some seemingly superficial stress can run much deeper than expected.

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A beautiful quote from Primo Levi about the relationship between the inner tension of arches and human resilience.

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When you look at how the physical and mental work together, you realize the body is kind of like the mind's notebook.

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If we worried less, it would be the great liberator. I'm not talking about suicide. I'm talking about perception of life. A large part of the anxiety we accumulate comes from our tendency to take everything seriously.

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People joke they would do nothing if they could. Most would be unable to face the anxiety created by this void.

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Problems are a function of who we are. By changing inner dispositions, we transform our relationship to external circumstances.

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A touch of the blues on the highway. No reason. Then I understood: nothing exciting was waiting for me. What if that was actually fine?

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First, let me be clear: I'm not religious in the slightest. Yet, over the past few years, I've discovered a certain spirituality within me.

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Don't think of elephants! Too late. The more we fight a thought, the stronger it gets. What if the real solution was to stop fighting?

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Two bad reasons not to act, yet the two main causes of our inaction. When about to give up on something, I ask: is it fear or comfort holding me back?

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In meditation, progress means recognizing more and more of our inner contents as thoughts. Even the ones so familiar we mistook them for reality.

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