Hoping a situation will change keeps you at a distance from your true feelings-sadness, anger, fear. Each of these feelings is best appreciated up close. Feel them deeply, and they will cease to bother you. Hope they'll go away, and they'll bother you all day.
Interpretation
Avoiding true feelings only prolongs distress; embracing emotions leads to healing.
This quote emphasizes the importance of confronting and feeling our emotions—such as sadness, anger, and fear—rather than hoping they will disappear on their own. The author argues that by fully experiencing these feelings, we can reduce their hold on us, leading to greater emotional well-being and resilience.
In practice
In a therapy session focusing on emotional release.
You never know when it is going to happen, when you will experience a moment that dramatically transforms your life. When you look back, often years later, you may see how a brief conversation or an insight you read somewhere, changed the entire course of your life.
Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed out inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure.
The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself.
Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
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