Our Perpetual Struggle Against Life Obscures Our Clear, Unbiased Mind

‘Our perpetual struggle against life just as it is, is like a thick cloud over that continually obscures our clear mind, unbiased mind.

But once we’ve gained some sense of that relaxed, open mind- through formal meditation practice or by experiencing gaps and other moments of specialized in our daily life-

we can develop an appetite for whatever helps us pierce through the clouds.’

– Pema Chodron, How We Live Is How We Die

To Be Nonjudgmental Means…

To be nonjudgmental means having flexibility of mind and the ability to let go of our attachment to what seems right to us.’

Then ask yourself,Can we allow the lives of others to be different from ours and feel happy for them?

Can we rejoice for them as their happiness grows, in whatever way that is happening?’

-Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness