drink from the well of yourself, and begin again

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

Nothing that comes and goes is you. ‘I am bored.’ Who knows this? ‘I am angry, sad, afraid.’ Who knows this? You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

The happiness we seek cannot be found through grasping, trying to hold on to things. It cannot be found through getting serious and uptight about wanting things to go in the direction we think will bring happiness. We are always taking hold of the wrong end of the stick. The point is that the happiness we seek is already here and it will be found through relaxation and letting go rather than through struggle.

When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.

Your past only exists because you think about it. Your fears, your frustrations, only exist because you think about them. Where would they come from if you didn’t think about them, if you didn’t bring them into play in the present? Where would they come from? How would they be there? You are the cause of all of your problems.

Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.

I didn’t leave because I stopped loving you, I left because the longer I stayed the less I loved myself.