Life Lessons

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. It just keeps returning with new names, forms, and manifestations until we learn whatever it has to teach us about where we are separating ourselves from reality, how we are pulling back instead of opening up, closing down instead of alowing ourselves to experience fully whatever we encounter, without hesitating or retreating into ourselves. To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. ~ Pema Chodron