By Maria Popova — 2015
“The impulse to create begins—often terribly and fearfully—in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence.”
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A calm mind and even temper can help make peace with life’s difficulties.
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As Buddhist teaching says, suffering has the potential to deepen our compassion and understanding of the human condition. And in so doing, it can lead us to even greater faith, joy and well-being.
Buddhist teacher Joan Halifax describes five “edge states” where courage meets fear and freedom meets suffering.