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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Stepping back from your emotional attachments


Art : Khaled Akil
 


"Detaching from our emotional responses encourages an objective perspective about our challenges.
 Our oversensitivity to difficulties is usually caused by our emotional
investment in a particular outcome.
By choosing instead to step back from our emotions,
we give ourselves the ability to remain impartial to the unsettling events in our lives.
While we may still feel concerned,
interested, and connected to our life circumstances,
we are no longer controlled by them.
This new, objective perspective gives us the freedom and courage
to embrace a peace-oriented state of mind
that cannot help but have a positive effect in every aspect of our lives.
Stepping back from your emotional attachments
can give you the objectivity to make wiser choices."

Lama Karma Chötso

Sunday, November 27, 2016

Open heart.


Art : Adam Raasalhague


"When we find ourselves in a situation in which our buttons are being pushed,
we can choose to repress or act out, or we can choose to practice.
If we can start to do the exchange, breathing in with the intention of keeping our hearts
open to the embarrassment or fear or anger that we feel,
then to our surprise we find that we are also open to what the other person is feeling.
Open heart is open heart."


Chögyam Trungpa
 
 

 

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