Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better.
Nobody else can really begin to sort out for you what to accept and what to reject in terms of what wakes you up and what makes you fall asleep. No one else can really sort out for you what to accept - what opens up your world - and what to reject - what seems to keep you going round and round in some kind of repetitive misery.
Constantly apply cheerfulness, if for no other reason than because you are on this spiritual path. Have a sense of gratitude to everything, even difficult emotions, because of their potential to wake you up.
Throwing water balloons wakes you up!
The only thing that lives beyond the grave is the wake you have created by the way you have lived your life; the goals you have set; the distance away from the normal you dared to tread.
Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating. " He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just. . . want to see it again. Want to see you awake.
