Kindle Notes & Highlights
Read between
July 21 - September 7, 2022
What makes you feel stable and comfortable? What makes you feel unstable and uncomfortable?
Q1
suggested to her that when beliefs about our identity clash in a painful way, it’s an opportunity to have another look at them.
And I referred her back to some lines of the Yoga Sūtra. (E.g. How could she do something differently?)
The Yoga Sūtra says that our inability to tolerate not knowing is the root of all our struggles in life.
The fundamental question I ask everyone I work with derives from this sūtra. What makes you comfortable? What makes you uncomfortable? What makes you feel stable, or unstable? In other words, what helps and what harms? When we’re beginning yoga, it really helps to come back to these questions, over and over again. They seem simple, but their implications are profound.
I ask myself, ‘What’s really going on here?’ dozens of times a day.
In situations where fear or desire or ego is involved, it is harder to see reality. Relationships, which often involve a potent mix of anxieties and desires and needs and roles, are a breeding ground for difficulties, but every difficulty can be used as an opportunity.
‘We need to get more comfortable with not knowing.’
The feeling of freedom is starting from reading this sentence:)
Humanity remains stubbornly incapable of knowing when enough is enough.
