Well-being of body is like a mountain. A lot happens on a mountain. It hails, and the winds come up, and it rains and snows. The sun gets very hot, clouds cross over, animals shit and piss on the mountain, and so do people. People leave their trash, and other people clean it up. Many things come and go on this mountain, but it just sits there. When we’ve seen ourselves completely, there’s a stillness of body that is like a mountain. We no longer get jumpy and have to scratch our noses, pull our ears, punch somebody, go running from the room, or drink ourselves into oblivion.
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Quotable Quotes: Stillness in Uncertainty
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About the author
Hi, I’m IrisJean, but you can call me IJ.
I am a fan of learning, exchanging good audio book recommendations (specifically in the ‘this narrator is amazing!!!’ genre or in the sci-fi, thriller, fantasy, interesting premise genre), and I like to watch content of all sorts as well (big into binging a tv show and then having to wait for the next season to see how the story ends – Severance should feel called out right now!). I play too many video games.
I am a parent to 2 amazing kiddos who are growing way too fast, a partner to a soon-to-be retired from the US Navy human, and a rescue-dog mom. (She’s a collie-foxhound mix. Everyone thinks she’s a beagle!)
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