Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the future, it's because of our a… - Pema Chödrön

Laziness is not particularly terrible or wonderful. Rather it has a basic living quality that deserves to be experienced just as it is. Perhaps we’ll find an irritating, pulsating quality in laziness. We might feel it as dull and heavy or as vulnerable and raw. Whatever we discover, as we explore it further, we find nothing to hold on to, nothing solid, only groundless, wakeful energy.

This process of experiencing laziness directly and nonverbally is transformative. It unlocks a tremendous energy that is usually blocked by our habit of running away. This is because when we stop resisting laziness, our identity as the one who is lazy begins to fall apart completely. Without the blinders of ego, we connect with a fresh outlook, a greater vision. This is how laziness — or any other demon — introduces us to the compassionate life.

nobody but yourself can tell you what to accept and what to reject.

The opposite of patience is aggression — the desire to jump and move, to push against our lives, to try to fill up space.