The cause of irritation – or our notion that something is bad – that comes from us, from our labels and expectations.*
Ryan Holiday
Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss. Where we cannot go in our mind, our memory or our body is where we cannot be straight with another, with the world, or with our self.**
David Whyte
I can jump to a conclusion very well
from my many years of training
in blaming something “out there”–
Though sometimes it is,
If I take a moment more
to check “inside here”
I may find a desire to have my own way,
To control the outcome,
For my assumptions to be realised–
Sometimes a moment allows
to see what is and desires to emerge–
And in this moment I am gifted
with growth.
*Ryan Holiday’s The Daily Stoic;
**David Whyte’s Consolations.
