“The secure attachment of Western psychology is actually akin to Buddhist non-attachment”— Related Quotes “What I didn’t know until right this very minute was how growing up happens in little surges. We grow up in moments – when we encounter such stupidities in ourselves that our only choice is to grow past them or into them. Maybe that’s why some kids grow up too fast and others not at all.”— Natalie C. Parker “Meditation is the alchemist of the soul. It transforms disappointment into acceptance”— “Such ordeals always strike one with their strangeness, their digression from the normal flow of events, and often provoke a universal protest: “Why me?” Be sure that this is not a question but an outcry. The person who screams it has been instilled with an astonishing suspicion that he, in fact, has been the perfect subject for a very specific “weird,” a tailor-made fate, and that a prior engagement, in all its weirdness, was fulfilled at the appointed time and place.”— Thomas Ligotti