We do not meditate in order to be comfortable. In other words, we don’t meditate in order to always, all the time, feel good. I imagine shockwaves are passing through you as you read this, because so many people come to meditation to simply “feel better.” However, the purpose of meditation is not to feel bad, you’ll be glad to know. Rather, meditation gives us the opportunity to have an open, compassionate attentiveness to whatever is going on. The meditative space is like the big sky — spacious, vast enough to accommodate anything that arises.

Pema Chodron, 5 Reasons to Meditate

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Things are as they are.

Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars,

nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Alan Watts

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

I do not understand the mystery of grace – 

only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.

Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies