Resting Frog Recipes for Life

Can I learn to live with myself?

I think I must live with myself to really know myself. Day in, day out, staying alert to every little thing. Awareness of movement, sound, thought, feelings, and how they all change. I can not have preconceived ideas about myself.

Krishnamurti said, "you can face a fact only in the present and if you never allow it to be present because you are always escaping from it, you can never face it". Hmpf! We are always squirming, escaping, and denying so we don't have to feel the moment as it is, the pain, the fear. The truth is that it is easier to feel now. Just to slip into the moment now and be done with it. The next moment arises fresh and clear. Look something straight in the eye!