Staying and Resigning
Leaping Into This Moment: Desire, Fear, and What Is
June 19, 2024
dialogue

Staying and Resigning

Quedarse y renunciar

A question about how to distinguish between a deeper impulse to stay with difficulty and the shallow urge to resign, and whether unwanted feelings can be trusted as signals.

Staying and Resigning

A question about how to distinguish between a deeper impulse to stay with difficulty and the shallow urge to resign, and whether unwanted feelings can be trusted as signals.

I suppose maybe the difficulty is knowing which is which. Sometimes, if something feels like what you don't want, is that coming from something deeper? Because sometimes that's a sign pointing toward what you do want. Or is it just fear?

If you always take a sensation as a sign,