From Pema Chodron, more wisdom
If you haven't read her book "When thing fall apart", I highly recommend it.
This is from "Comfortable with uncertainty": "If we find ourselves in doubt that we're up to being a warrior-in-training [a bodhichitta], we can contemplate this question: 'Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?"
This is from "Comfortable with uncertainty": "If we find ourselves in doubt that we're up to being a warrior-in-training [a bodhichitta], we can contemplate this question: 'Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?"