Working With Chaos

      “Sometimes … on a long walk with a friend, we find ourselves discussing our ideas about how to live and how to act and what is important in life…. We might have just read … some teachings that turned our usual way of seeing things upside down. We feel that we’ve just reconnected with a truth we’ve always known and that if we could just learn more about it, our life would be delightful and rich…. We suddenly are excited and feel it’s possible…. You may have noticed, however, that there is frequently an irritating, if not depressing, discrepancy between our ideas and good intentions and how we act when we are confronted with the nitty-gritty details of real life situations….”