Have you heard of or ever uttered the phrase “this too shall pass”? I have. I remember the first time I said it to myself. I was in a meeting with a nervous, gruff, chain-something academic who threw an epic temper tantrum whole meeting with community members who were to carry out her research. She threw the biggest hissy fit I had seen in a professional setting. And, it was awkward and embarrassing. I tried to play mediator bit I soon came to realize there was no point. Thus, at one point I found myself uttering “this too shall pass.” I had to remind myself that the situation was temporary. It would not last forever.
The temporary sense of being, in any situation both good and bad, is not to be forgotten. It’s a hard life lesson to process. However, it is extremely useful to remember. Both hard and easy moments are ephemeral. Some take a little longer to dissipate but they do eventually lessen. Everything ends, or so you hope. In some way.
Categories: Culture, identity, Leadership, mental health, Psychology, society
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https://thedewdrop.org/2021/04/19/everything-changes-shunryu-suzuki/
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If only it were true.
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Supposedly that’s the saying Solomon used to keep himself from getting depressed when things were bad and manic when things got good.
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A Pebble A Stone in A Pond only
Makes Waves So Long Yet Of Course
More Pebbles and Stones Come Tides
Go Out and In And Waves on the Ocean
Rise to Storms And Peaceful Calm Conditions
of Serenity
So Long And
Returning too With SMiLes
SMiLes Humans Have An Ability
To Generate THeir Waves ALong With
Colors With SMiLes Humans Have an
Ability to Filter Colors into Colors That Feel
More Like Home SMiles Some Humans Seek
And Find And
Practice These
Abilities Day-to-Day
Others Are Just Subject
to Falling Stones And Pebbles
Waves at the Controls of Others Indeed
For Those Who Drive At Least Hehe Dear Miriam
It’s Like Two Cars Stuck in Traffic One Occupant
Experiencing Road Rage As They Can’t Wait
to Get to the Next Place They Are Going
Yet as i Sit in the Other Car or
Beside my Wife Hehe i Am
in A Place Perfect Enough
to Practice Naked
Enough Whole
Complete
And if Someone Cuts
me Off in Traffic Just
Another Feather Blowing in the Breeze
Amazing too How Easy it is to Navigate Life New
When We Become The Wind That Guides our Feathers Now
Hehe, Yeah, i Realize it Sounds Like A Lot of Fluff, Nonsense,
And Mush to Those Addicted to Fear, Anger, And Hate Yet
That’s the Way
The Two Paths
Rise and Fall
Rise and Fall Some More
Meh, i Choose SMiLes in The Breeze…
And Most Often Don’t Look Forward to What Comes Next
As It’s Sort of A Wasted Effort When Now is A Prize Already
Arriving…
Yet On the Other
Hand i am Not Trapped
in Anyone Else’s Prison Either
Unless Someone Sees A ‘Red Light’ That Way…
Meh, i’m Usually Listening to a Fascinating Podcast
Anyway i Master the Tools i Feel Rather than Being
Mastered by Red
LiGHTS in
Life
i Go
Green Hehe
And True i Tend to Go Long New
CoLoRinG As THere is No Time in
This Place Now…
HAha
And Now New
This too Passes Bye
Too Just Changing Colors
of Feathers Breezing New Now
See Ya Later Soon Enough hehe..:)
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