Awakening is Up to You
Breathing in, breathing out, feeling resentful, feeling happy, being able to drop
it, not being able to drop it, eating our food, brushing our teeth, walking,
sittingâ€"whatever we’re doing could be done with one intention. That intention is
that we want to wake up, we want to ripen our compassion, and we want to ripen
our ability to let go, we want to realize our connection with all beings.
Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or to put us to sleep.
Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.
-Pema Chodron, from Comfortable With Uncertainty (Shambhala Publications)
