Tea and Cake with Demons Quotes

“But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down. David Foster Wallace, This Is Water”
― Adreanna Limbach, Tea and Cake with Demons: A Buddhist Guide to Feeling Worthy

“It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis. Henry Miller, Sunday After the War”
― Adreanna Limbach, Tea and Cake with Demons: A Buddhist Guide to Feeling Worthy

“Of all of Aristotle’s many landmark contributions to Western society, one of the most touching might be the strange Ancient Greek word entelékheia. Modernized over time as entelechy, it’s the combination of the Greek words ékhō, which means “to have,” and télos, which means “wholeness, completion, or fruition.” Spun together, entelechy represents that which has wholeness, that which contains its own completion.”
― Adreanna Limbach, Tea and Cake with Demons: A Buddhist Guide to Feeling Worthy

“Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord. John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings”
― Adreanna Limbach, Tea and Cake with Demons: A Buddhist Guide to Feeling Worthy

“it’s in the pursuit of more that we deny ourselves so much.”
― Adreanna Limbach, Tea and Cake with Demons: A Buddhist Guide to Feeling Worthy

“Our beliefs and our preferences act as filters, categorizing each smell, sound, taste, and touch into categories of what we like, and what we don’t. Very rarely do we interact with the raw material of our experience,”
― Adreanna Limbach, Tea and Cake with Demons: A Buddhist Guide to Feeling Worthy

“The whole of the path might be boiled down to the practice of relating to ourselves, each other, and our society more consciously, and doing so begins with noticing the way that we sift our lives into binary piles: worthy/inferior, dignified/cheap, spiritual/mundane, sacred/profane. What if manifesting a dignified life begins with simply noticing where our lines are drawn and beginning to blur them all together?”
― Adreanna Limbach, Tea and Cake with Demons: A Buddhist Guide to Feeling Worthy

“Our willingness to befriend our pain and discomfort is how our demon material finds redemption, and in this redemption we find an enduring belief in our wholeness, the kind of wholeness that includes it all.”
― Adreanna Limbach, Tea and Cake with Demons: A Buddhist Guide to Feeling Worthy

“I’m sorry to report that meditation has not catapulted me into a blissful realm where only good vibes exist and scary things are no longer scary. That such a place exists is poppycock. I’m still a flawed and neurotic human being like everybody else, with a tendency toward deep sadness, fear, and anger. I have demons in spades. They’ve just become somewhat less menacing with time, repeated gestures of kindness toward myself, and a stable, grounded base to work from.”
― Adreanna Limbach, Tea and Cake with Demons: A Buddhist Guide to Feeling Worthy

“Ambition that’s born from shame and self-loathing is powerful, but unfortunately it’s a fuel that doesn’t burn clean.”
― Adreanna Limbach, Tea and Cake with Demons: A Buddhist Guide to Feeling Worthy

“James Baldwin once reflected, “It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people.”
― Adreanna Limbach, Tea and Cake with Demons: A Buddhist Guide to Feeling Worthy

“On Self-Respect,” Joan Didion asserts that “people with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things.”
― Adreanna Limbach, Tea and Cake with Demons: A Buddhist Guide to Feeling Worthy

“Kisa Gotami hears of the Buddha, who had been teaching in India, and travels to him with the body of her deceased boy draped in her arms. She throws herself at the Buddha’s mercy and pleads for a cure to bring her son back. It’s said that the Buddha considers her case for a moment and then promises that he will do as she asks if she collects a single mustard seed from the home of a family that has not experienced loss. Kisa Gotami springs into action, knocking on every door in the village with her singular request. As the story goes, at each door she is confronted with stories of loss. The death of a daughter. A wife. A cousin. A friend. No home in the village could fulfill her request. It is then that Kisa Gotami realized the universality of sorrow, and she returned to the Buddha. The recognition that her grief wasn’t isolated in some ways healed her.”
― Adreanna Limbach, Tea and Cake with Demons: A Buddhist Guide to Feeling Worthy

“Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go. Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost”
― Adreanna Limbach, Tea and Cake with Demons: A Buddhist Guide to Feeling Worthy

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― Adreanna Limbach, Tea and Cake with Demons: A Buddhist Guide to Feeling Worthy

“The world is going to break your heart. First Noble Truth. We get to decide if it breaks us open into empathy or into sharp little pieces.”
― Adreanna Limbach, Tea and Cake with Demons: A Buddhist Guide to Feeling Worthy

“your demons arise not because of dukkha, but in response to dukkha.”
― Adreanna Limbach, Tea and Cake with Demons: A Buddhist Guide to Feeling Worthy