If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.
Interpretation
Taking a moment to pause can alleviate negative emotions and restore positivity.
This quote highlights the importance of taking a break to manage one's emotions. By allowing oneself time to sit quietly, one can overcome feelings of impatience, frustration, and negativity, ultimately regaining a sense of humor and perspective on life.
In practice
This quote could be used during a mindfulness seminar to emphasize the benefits of pausing.
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.
All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.
We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds. Which is better is clear, for the Christian ideal is always positive rather than negative.
Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness. The properly shaped question always emanates from an essential curiosity about what stands behind. Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.
It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.
The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.
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