Oh promise you won't give to others what they give to you eh?
If they give you little don't give little.
If they give you nothing don't give a little.
Don't ever let them tame your overflow and don't let them close you in boundaries.
If they limit themselves there is no reason for you to do so too, if it is in their nature to be little or nothing, why do you have to stop being there so much everything?
Be so much everything yourself.
Remember that.
Don't give others the importance they give you.
Don't lose the value of life.
If their heart has an end full of dead ends, don't lead your heartbeat there too.
You beat elsewhere.
Never enrol your drum in the conservatory of listless orchestras.
If they invite you to paucity you exaggerate.
Evolve before them.
Loving them does not mean hanging out with them.
No it means avoiding them but without carrying the great weight of their mediocrity inside you.
Now promise yourself that you will not love the way they love you.
But you will love the way you usually love.
Remember not to hurt your wounds and not to give as much as they give you because by doing so you will be playing the same game as them or worse.
You will be living the same life as them.

gio evan
(Italian poet)

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Life was never meant to be understood.
It was meant to be felt.
We spend so much time trying to understand everything, to fix, to explain, to solve, to control.
But life is not an enigma.
It is a wave.
And you were never meant to carry the wave on your shoulders.
You were meant to let it wash over you.
The joy, the fear, the heartbreak.
I think sadness comes when we try to hold back what is meant to pass.
But everything you ever loved was on loan.
And its beauty was never in holding it back.
It was in being there.
So if you are in pain don't be in a hurry to escape.
If you feel lost don't be in a hurry to escape.
Feel it.
All of it.

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But can't you really see how well you're doing for yourself?
You can tell by the children who want to be with you and seek your hand, chase you, pinch you, and then ask if they can sit next to you at dinner.
And the animals too, even the ones that warn you that they sometimes bite, right?
They wag their tails and recognise you.
As if you were an old friend, the owner says to you, but do you know who never does that with anyone else?
How strange!
It's not strange at all.
Then there are the people you meet on your walks who stop to talk to you.
They seemed to be in a hurry, but they stop with you, they start to open up, they confide in you, and they only have a few seconds, they can't keep you there all afternoon, but in those few seconds, the old lady manages to update you on her life, her husband, when she was young, and maybe it will rain tomorrow...
But you want to know when you're doing a good job on yourself.
When life likes to be close to you.

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When everything collapses and only the essential is left standing, the judgement we receive from outside no longer matters.
I am what I am.
We are what we are.
The starry sky can continue to twirl in its perfect orbits.
I can be immersed in a condition of constant change and yet feel that there is something in me that persists.
And it is reasonable to think that it will persist forever.
I am what I am.
I want to get to the bottom of this thought.
If that is indeed the case.
What will ever be a judgement from outside?

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Talvolta ci troviamo con le spalle al muro:
tutto quanto va in pezzi, e non abbiamo più vie di fuga.
In momenti del genere, le verità spirituali più profonde sembrano piuttosto semplici e ordinarie.
Non c’è un posto in cui nascondersi.
Lo vediamo come gli altri meglio degli altri.
Prima o poi comprendiamo che anche se questo non ci fa sembrare bella la paura, tuttavia fa riemergere tutti gli insegnamenti che possiamo aver ascoltato o letto.

Quindi, la prossima volta che incontrerete la paura, consideratevi fortunati.
È qui che entra in gioco il coraggio.

Di solito pensiamo che i coraggiosi non hanno paura.
La verità è che conoscono la paura molto bene.


di Pema Chodron
(monaca buddhista statunitense)
da: facebook


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Sometimes we find ourselves with our backs against the wall:
everything falls apart, and we have no way out.
At times like this, the deepest spiritual truths seem rather simple and ordinary.
There is nowhere to hide.
We see it as others do best.
Sooner or later we realise that even if this does not make fear seem beautiful to us, it nevertheless brings to the surface all the teachings we may have heard or read.

So, the next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky.
This is where courage comes in.

We usually think that the brave have no fear.
The truth is, they know fear very well.


by Pema Chodron
(us buddhist nun)
from: facebook

Life is like a book.
Some chapters are sad, others are happy, but all are necessary to complete the story.
A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything.
It's not about having what you want, but wanting what you are.
Take a deep breath.
It's just a bad day.
Not a bad life.

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