When there's no escape

The book When There's No Escape: The Art of Loving This World teaches the reader to say yes to life. In all its forms, even those that we find unappealing or even painful. Human life is a mix of joy, suffering, moments of clear insight into the nature of things and total confusion.
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It is said that we can only truly love others when we can love ourselves. And that we can only experience true joy when we learn not to run from pain. The important thing is to be open to life with all its aspects. A popular Buddhist nun teaches readers true kindness to themselves and others. When we learn to embrace the joyful and the painful in the same way, we can understand the dance of life in all its natural cycles and discover in our hearts the wellspring of courageous love, understanding that it has always been within us.
Quotes from the book:
"The Navajo teach their children that when the sun rises in the morning, it is a brand new sun every time. Every morning it is born again, lives for a day and leaves forever in the evening. As soon as the children are old enough to understand, the adults take them at dawn and tell them: "The sun has only one day. You must spend the day well, so that the sun does not waste its precious time in vain.""
"Whenever we get angry, we grumble or crave something so much, that it makes us miserable, we'll start shutting down, losing lucidity, like we were sitting on the edge of the Grand Canyon, but they put a big black bag over their heads."
"Our mission in life is to use what we have been given. Wake up, allow it, let us have it, that's penetrating our circle, it doesn't blunt, but he's waking up."
"Overcoming obstacles is a way of life in itself. The warrior constantly encounters dragons. Of course a warrior is scared, especially before a battle. It' s scary. But even with a shaky, fragile heart, he realizes that he is about to take a step into the unknown, and then he will take that step and fight the dragon. He realizes that the dragon is nothing more than a manifestation of some unfinished business and that it is actually fear that needs to be worked with."