The Sky

You are the sky.
Everything else – it’s just the weather.
~ Pema Ch0dron

"There isn’t any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

We all know what addiction is; we are primarily addicted to ME. Interestingly enough, when the weather changes and the energy flows through us, just as it flows through the grass and the trees and the moose and the ocean and the rocks, we discover that we are not solid at all.

The essence of the fourth noble truth is the eightfold path. Everything we do–our discipline, effort, meditation, livelihood, and every single thing that we do from the moment we’re born until the moment we die–we can use to help us to realize our unity and our completeness with all things. We can use our lives, in other words, to wake up to the fact that we’re not separate: the energy that causes us to live and be whole and awake and alive is just the energy that creates everything, and we’re part of that. We can use our lives to connect with that, or we can use them to become resentful, alienated, resistant, angry, bitter. As always, it’s up to us."