Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change by Chödrön, Pema

The Overview

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what is next or how. The moment you know-how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.—AGNES DE MILLE

The Fundamental Ambiguity of Being Human

What a predicament! We seem doomed to suffer simply because we have a deep-seated fear of how things really are. Our attempts to find lasting pleasure, lasting security, are at odds with the fact that we’re part of a dynamic system in which everything and everyone is in process.
This refers, I think, to an essential choi...