security

A while back I mentioned the Buddhist Web site Tricycle. My friend Peggy investigated found this quote by Pema Chödrön there.

So accurate. Thank you, Peggy!

What is it like to realize we can never completely and finally get it all together? What a predicament! We seem doomed to suffer simply because we have a deep-seated fear of how things really are. Our attempts to find lasting pleasure, lasting security, are at odds with the fact that we’re part of a dynamic system in which everything and everyone is in process.


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