I am so thankful for what I learned about myself and the resilience of humanity this year. What have you learned and how have you gained from one of the most challenging times worldwide?
Episode highlights:
01:05 What can we appreciate that we gained even through crappy experiences?
01:32 This year has helped me not take any of my friendships and connections for granted.
03:00 Maybe there isn’t always going to be another time we’re going to get together.
03:40 Being able to relax enough to finally be able to have a party again was such a joy!
03:50 How beautiful it was to have such a simple thing!
05:00 Why would I want to rush through any of these breakfasts? And yet I know I’m going to. Being present is hard.
05:30 Interactions with my daughter over breakfast highlight how contradictory my own desires are and how these opposite impulses are what life is truly made of.
06:06 Recognizing each moment’s qualities no matter what they are leads to contentment.
06:30 There is no arriving – the moments I live will just keep going, and so I go with them.
06:50 There is a relief knowing that there will never be a moment when I reach a complete understanding of life and all within it.
06:53 There is no pinnacle of achievement to speed towards. This pace is fine whether I achieve anything or not.
07:10 All my experiences are fine, whether I am enjoying them or not. I can let them be OK. I can accept them as they are.
09:00 Allowing others to experience their life without me trying to change or fix them has allowed me to have my experiences without trying to change and fix them all the time, too.
09:30 Letting people have their feelings can let you stop filtering their feelings through yours. Their feelings suddenly aren’t about you anymore or a reflection of you.
09:40 So much of what’s going on in the world isn’t about you or me. It just is happening. We don’t have to take it personally, even though we can act to improve life and change it.
10:00 We’re all on the boat of life being tossed in the sea, and nobody knows what’s going on but we’re all doing the best we can. That’s how it’s always been.
10:30 No matter how expanded I feel about other people, I know I’ll only continue to be more impressed with them in another year. There’s so much more to appreciate!
11:30 Everyone lost something or someone over the last year or two. How have you grown with your loss?
11:37 We don’t grow beyond our losses. We incorporate them and we evolve expanding around them. Our losses make us who we are.
12:00 In this moment, can you have compassion for everything that you’ve gone through and everything that you’ve witnessed?
12:40 We don’t have to handle life well in order to get through things. Even if we feel like we’re failing or doing poorly, we are still surviving.
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