“The truth is that we’re always in some kind of in-between state, always in process. We never fully arrive. When we’re present with the dynamic quality of our lives, we’re also present with impermanence, uncertainty, and change. If we can stay present, then we might finally get that there’s no security or certainty in the objects of our pleasure or the objects of our pain, no security or certainty in winning or losing, in compliments or criticism, in good reputation or bad–no security or certainty ever in anything that’s fleeting, that’s subject to change.”
–Pema Chodron
security
Morning Trip (221)
“Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.”
–J. Krishnamurti
When You Look in a Mirror–Purple Profundity: Poetry by Elisabeth Connelley
When you look in a mirror
What do you see
What will you do then
Don’t you blame meeeeeee
What will you do
When the mirror goes black
And all roads to safety
Disappear off the track
That you travel so slowly
Tomorrow
–by elisabeth connelley
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