by Sarah Chauncey | Feb 28, 2015 | Life
This is a topic I’ve been percolating for a long time, and it comes from a teaching by Tara Brach in which she says, “The world is divided into people who think they’re right.” Nothing illustrates this better than our collective reaction to The...
by Sarah Chauncey | Feb 8, 2015 | Life
(For the first part of this post, see Acceptance) Resistance, the opposite of acceptance, is a blockage of energy. Think about how we experience tension, anger and worry on a physical level: the stomach feels like it’s in knots; our throats clench; there’s a heaviness...
by Sarah Chauncey | Feb 7, 2015 | Joy
And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation — some fact of my life — unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or...
