Melody Beattie

Yeah, we don't want to get banged up anymore. It's not because we're bad. It's because we've already been through enough, we think. We just don't want to hurt anymore. And who can blame us?

I have learned that surrender is one of the few things in life that hurts most before I do it. Every time out of the box. It's my resistance. It's my resistance. When I'm in a state of resistance to a situation, to an emotion, to anything in life, when I'm resisting it, I'm putting myself through pain.

I have learned that surrender is one of the few things in life that hurts most before I do it. Every time out of the box. It's my resistance. It's my resistance. When I'm in a state of resistance to a situation, to an emotion, to anything in life, when I'm resisting it, I'm putting myself through pain.

I have learned that surrender is one of the few things in life that hurts most before I do it. Every time out of the box. It's my resistance. It's my resistance. When I'm in a state of resistance to a situation, to an emotion, to anything in life, when I'm resisting it, I'm putting myself through pain.

Yes. Contemplating the fact that we're not really in control. Yeah.

Yes. Contemplating the fact that we're not really in control. Yeah.

Yes. Contemplating the fact that we're not really in control. Yeah.

Life is a duality, isn't it?

Life is a duality, isn't it?

Life is a duality, isn't it?

It really is a duality. There's no easy formula for anything in life that I've found that actually works.

It really is a duality. There's no easy formula for anything in life that I've found that actually works.

It really is a duality. There's no easy formula for anything in life that I've found that actually works.

It can be a bit much at times, especially over the last, I would say 15 years. It's all, it all has been a bit much, but we're getting challenged at such deep levels about long held beliefs about right, about wrong, about who we are, about how to be in the world. If there's another thing I would encourage people to do and, Instead of telling ourselves stop controlling, we can start allowing life.

It can be a bit much at times, especially over the last, I would say 15 years. It's all, it all has been a bit much, but we're getting challenged at such deep levels about long held beliefs about right, about wrong, about who we are, about how to be in the world. If there's another thing I would encourage people to do and, Instead of telling ourselves stop controlling, we can start allowing life.

It can be a bit much at times, especially over the last, I would say 15 years. It's all, it all has been a bit much, but we're getting challenged at such deep levels about long held beliefs about right, about wrong, about who we are, about how to be in the world. If there's another thing I would encourage people to do and, Instead of telling ourselves stop controlling, we can start allowing life.

We can allow life to happen. We can allow ourselves to be and to happen as well. We can gentle up a little bit because, you know, it's just been batshit crazy for quite a few years now, hasn't it? really crazy and really intense. And even going on the cell phone, every time I start to scroll, it feels like sticking my finger in a light switch.

We can allow life to happen. We can allow ourselves to be and to happen as well. We can gentle up a little bit because, you know, it's just been batshit crazy for quite a few years now, hasn't it? really crazy and really intense. And even going on the cell phone, every time I start to scroll, it feels like sticking my finger in a light switch.

We can allow life to happen. We can allow ourselves to be and to happen as well. We can gentle up a little bit because, you know, it's just been batshit crazy for quite a few years now, hasn't it? really crazy and really intense. And even going on the cell phone, every time I start to scroll, it feels like sticking my finger in a light switch.

And it just aggravates everything. So the next challenge is to find doing things that calm us, that help us find our inner peace and that nurture the light each of us have inside of ourselves to share with the world. We don't have to change the whole world, we don't have to buy out the whole table. We just need to quietly take our seat at it and let our light shine, you know?