"Inconvenience" by Pema Chodron

When you start to take the warrior's journey, you're
going to find that it's often extremely inconvenient.
When you start to want to live your life fully instead
of opting for death, you discover that life itself is
inconvenient. Wholeheartedness is a precious gift,
but no one can actually give it to you. You have to find
the path that has heart and then walk it impeccably.
In doing that, you again and again encounter the
inconvenience of your own uptightness, your own
headaches, your own falling flat on your face. But in
wholeheartedly practicing and wholeheartedly following
the path, this inconvenience is not an obstacle. It's
simply a certain texture of life, a certain energy of
life.

Not only that, sometimes when you just get flying and
all feels so good and you think, "This is it, this is that
path that has heart," you suddenly fall flat on your
face. Everybody's looking at you. You say to yourself,
"What happened to that path that had heart? This feels
like the path full of mud in my face. Since you are
wholeheartedly committed to the warrior's journey,
it pricks you, it pokes you. It's like someone laughing
in your ear, challenging you to figure out what to do
when you don't know what to do. It humbles you. It
opens your heart.

From "Comfortable With Uncertainty"

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