« A conversion of my life was to stop asking myself: "What does it take for me to be happy?" but: "How can I be in joy, here and now?" p.40 »
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Alexandre Jollien
Small Treatise on Abandonment: Thoughts to Welcome Life as It Proposes |
Alexandre Jollien
Small Treatise on Abandonment: Thoughts to Welcome Life as It Proposes
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« "It's not complicated": this expression is not an invitation to resignation, to give up. On the contrary, this friend so serene is always in the real, to take action to get better. Naturally, I find a new asceticism. Don't complicate things. Don't add anything when the difficulties arise. Without denying them, it is a question of returning to reality, of seeing that the imaginary, like a horse, gets carried away and makes the situation worse. "It's not complicated" is finally back to the immediate, to the real. What's going on? What do I have in front of me to take action and calm the mind? p.35 and 36 »
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Alexandre Jollien
Small Treatise on Abandonment: Thoughts to Welcome Life as It Proposes |
Alexandre Jollien
Small Treatise on Abandonment: Thoughts to Welcome Life as It Proposes
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« Sometimes when you listen to the friend who is in trouble, who does not get away with it, who flows, who cries, the immediate temptation, and it is an instinct of life, is to take action, to find solutions. And when there are no solutions? Well the friend in good, when I try to represent him, it is wide open arms that welcome the other as he is and nurtures for him unconditional love. He unconditionally likes: "I love you without you needing to do anything." p.23 and 24 »
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Alexandre Jollien
Small Treatise on Abandonment: Thoughts to Welcome Life as It Proposes |
Alexandre Jollien
Small Treatise on Abandonment: Thoughts to Welcome Life as It Proposes
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