Breathing in, breathing out, feeling resentful, feeling happy, being able to
drop it, not being able to drop it, eating our food, brushing our teeth,
walking, sitting—whatever we’re doing could be done with one intention. That
intention is that we want to wake up, we want to ripen our compassion, and
we want to ripen our ability to let go, we want to realize our connection
with all beings. Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or
to put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.
-Pema Chodron, from Comfortable With Uncertainty (Shambhala Publications)