Words of Wisdom: Not Knowing “Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.”- Pema Chödrön
Notes:Pema Chödrön (born in 1936) is an American Tibetan Buddhist ordained nun. She was an acharya of Shambhala Buddhism and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and has served as principal teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. She is the best-selling author of When Things Fall Apart, which gives an open-hearted call for human connection, compassion and learning to love the world exactly as it is. Learn more and discover her other books and body of works at: https://pemachodronfoundation.org/[Image: All Is Vanity (1892) drawing by American illustrator Charles Allan Gilbert (1873-1929). Mr. Gilbert is especially remembered for this widely-published memento mori or vanitas. The drawing employs a double image - a visual pun - in which the scene of a woman admiring herself in a mirror, when viewed from a distance, appears to be a human skull. The title of the drawing also a is pun, as the type of dressing-table pictured also is called a vanity.]The Smart Witch by Elizabeth
Words of Wisdom: Not Knowing
“Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.”
- Pema Chödrön
Notes:
Pema Chödrön (born in 1936) is an American Tibetan Buddhist ordained nun. She was an acharya of Shambhala Buddhism and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and has served as principal teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. She is the best-selling author of When Things Fall Apart, which gives an open-hearted call for human connection, compassion and learning to love the world exactly as it is. Learn more and discover her other books and body of works at: https://pemachodronfoundation.org/
[Image: All Is Vanity (1892) drawing by American illustrator Charles Allan Gilbert (1873-1929). Mr. Gilbert is especially remembered for this widely-published memento mori or vanitas. The drawing employs a double image - a visual pun - in which the scene of a woman admiring herself in a mirror, when viewed from a distance, appears to be a human skull. The title of the drawing also a is pun, as the type of dressing-table pictured also is called a vanity.]
The Smart Witch by Elizabeth
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