some quotes that i encountered today...

"Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent."

"Take any emotion - love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what i'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails"

"Or how we feel a surge of love for a partner but we don't say anything because we're frozen with the fear of what those words might do to the relationship. ... you let go, let the tears flow, feel it completely - but eventually be able to say, ' All right, that was my moment with loneliness. I'm not afraid of feeling lonely, but now, i'm going to that loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and i'm going to experience them as well'"


-- Morrie's enlightening words in "Tuesdays with Morrie"