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life falls apart; and maybe some things can’t be mended, but perhaps they can be reshaped into something even more beautiful.
‘Because it’s only when we stop clinging on to the plans we’ve made that we step on to the middle way – the way of the unknown. We call this the sacred path of the warrior.’
She said life is like trekking: it’s hard sometimes, but just keep putting one foot in front of the other, until you finally reach a place where you can see the sky beneath you.’
‘My mother often used to say that life is not about finding yourself – it’s about creating the person you want to be. Life doesn’t always give us answers. She taught me we have to accept there are some things we can’t understand, and in the end our lives will be defined by what we do with that fact – how we accept it and pick ourselves up, facing reality and adapting to it, rather than denying or ignoring it.
‘It’s never easy, making changes, is it? It takes quite a bit of work because, as we Buddhists know, the natural human way is to cling blindly to the desires and beliefs that make us suffer. Wishing life was otherwise keeps us stuck. Accepting where we are and focusing on finding the goodness in every day can go a long way to getting us out of that downward spiral of suffering.
life is not about finding yourself – it’s about creating the person you want to be.
