Is This What Being Vulnerable Feels Like?

i’ll run the risk
of being intimate with brokenness.

~ Sleeping At Last

Beginning, EquanimityDaron LarsonAugust 19, 2015Sleeping At Last, music, musicians, self, memory, growing up, struggle, risk, intimacy, hope, vulnerability, equanimity, liberation, Martin KlimasComment

Perpetual Self-Confrontation

"We live in perpetual self-confrontation between the external success and the internal value. And the tricky thing, I'd say, about these two sides of our nature is they work by different logics."

~ David Brooks

The Mighty Strings of Pleasure and Pain

"The universal war is not limited to the relation between different states, but takes place between villages, between households, and between individuals, and that it takes place even between the different parts of each individual soul."

~ T. K. Seung

If You Embrace It, It Will Teach You

"Healing comes in many guises. We're healed by just the touch of a friend. We're healed by the hug of a child. And healing does not imply that your life is suddenly going to lose all of the struggle, all of the challenge. What it does instead is it strengthens us for what is next. But to be open to healing means to be vulnerable. And I think if you look at me, you know I'm what they would call a vulnerable adult. The cat doesn't even listen to me here. I have no real sense of control anymore."

~ Bruce Kramer

Equanimity, Practice in LifeDaron LarsonApril 25, 2015Bruce Kramer, life, death, body, illness, medicine, On Being, frustration, struggle, suffering, yoga, relationshipsComment

Sweet and Tart

"Bad things are going to happen."

EquanimityDaron LarsonOctober 31, 2014Ellen Bass, poetry, uncertainty, chaos, suffering, life, mundane, challenge, complexity, relationships, growing up, discomfort, confusion, home, struggle, griefComment

Love Letters to Strangers

Daron LarsonNovember 30, 2012Hannah Brencher, TED, connection, friendliness, love, metta, struggle, writing, comfortComment

No One Could Do Nothing But Let It Happen

Daron LarsonNovember 29, 2012Larry Vienneau, Mary Ruefle, anxiety, comfort, death, grief, pain, struggle, sufferingComment

The Never-Ending Fight

Daron LarsonNovember 3, 2012conflict, feeling, life, logic, mystery, self, struggle, suffering, thinking, thoughts, uncertaintyComment

Welcome the Present Moment

Daron LarsonSeptember 10, 2012Pema Chödrön, friendliness, home, paying attention, present, struggle, equanimityComment

The Infinite Horizon Against Which Is Set Every Word

Daron LarsonJune 22, 2012God, intimacy, monastic, silence, struggleComment

Willpower

Daron LarsonMay 20, 2012behavior, change, practice, research, struggle, willpowerComment

To Create and Thrive from that Place Where all Feelings Reside

"We naturally long to sequester our doubts and fears, to disavow pain and worry. Unfortunately, to vanquish doubt is to leave the domain of the human being. Conversely, to embrace both one’s doubt and faith, one’s fear and courage, is to relate to the totality of the human experience."

~ Dennis Palumbo