The path of life should not be undertaken cautiously. Life paths are gifts (and sometimes not just for ourselves, but also others) for exploration, growth, and meaning-making.
Risk aversion stunts growth and awareness (which are interdependent).
To expand the space of our potential we must allow ourselves to be increasingly receptive to breathtaking joy, waves of emotional turmoil and pain, and all states in between. Through engaging in awareness practice, we gain appreciation of the richness of our experiences, our realities.
From moment to moment, deep and enriching states of immense enlightenment.
To withdraw from our experience is to insult our beings. When we choose to distract ourselves (through staying online or “connected,” alcohol, caffeine, food...any extreme that takes us out of the moment)we avoid the sparkles of enlightenment that are present throughout our past, present, and future iterations. Our existences and verticalities traverse time and space.
