“As much as possible, I attempt to step toward my distress rather than turn away at the first whiff of discomfort. A better way to put it might be to turn toward, rather than immediately turn away from, distressβturn toward, then take a good look. Itβs clear that responses are often governed by habits that have carved a path over time, and we can develop a habit of turning away fromβor rushing towardβdistress.”
Setsuan Gaelyn Godwin, the abbot of the Houston Zen Center
From Buddhadharma, the practitioner’s quarterly, Winter 2016, p. 22
