Stepping Off the Wheel
Friends,
The excerpt this week is from Buddhist teacher Tara Brach from a course on Happiness, Contentment, and Inner Freedom.
“I saw a cartoon a while ago with two mice and each is on its own spinning wheel and one is running furiously, the wheel’s in motion, and the other is just sitting at the bottom of the wheel looking deeply relaxed and happy and at peace and the caption says, “I had an epiphany.” And so the question is: What did that mouse realize? You know, can we see in our own lives – the ways that we’re kind of on that spinning wheel….”
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