Dear Jasmine, I love this and not only appreciate but gain support from your format of question/answer. Brilliant, well considered, kind, and useful, thank you! To a fellow off/on procrastinator, I get it and yes, action is the answer for me at least and sometimes very hard to get myself there. It's true that acceptance with action is helpful in living with ruminations of suffering of others and our own. That is, for me to gently say to myself, yes, I would have done such and such differently and there is sadness or loss or "fill in the blank there" but it is one experience among many. The key for me is to recognize it and allow the other many thoughts and possibilities.
I think most of us do what we can to improve the world most often in very small but meaningful ways.
To balance longing for change with doing, I can remember to give myself permission as you said to reach for aliveness and that my chance at this brief existence is an honor. I define god as unassigned free floating goodness " To know "God" we must welcome everything" Rabidranath Tragore
Dear Jasmine, I love this and not only appreciate but gain support from your format of question/answer. Brilliant, well considered, kind, and useful, thank you! To a fellow off/on procrastinator, I get it and yes, action is the answer for me at least and sometimes very hard to get myself there. It's true that acceptance with action is helpful in living with ruminations of suffering of others and our own. That is, for me to gently say to myself, yes, I would have done such and such differently and there is sadness or loss or "fill in the blank there" but it is one experience among many. The key for me is to recognize it and allow the other many thoughts and possibilities.
I think most of us do what we can to improve the world most often in very small but meaningful ways.
To balance longing for change with doing, I can remember to give myself permission as you said to reach for aliveness and that my chance at this brief existence is an honor. I define god as unassigned free floating goodness " To know "God" we must welcome everything" Rabidranath Tragore