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.
I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.
Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.
A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.
Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!
Modesty is of no use to a beggar.
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
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