Comments on: On Sacrificing Who We Are http://www.devyou.com/buddhism/on-sacrificing-who-we-are Develop a Better You! Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:50:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: JoAnn http://www.devyou.com/buddhism/on-sacrificing-who-we-are/comment-page-1#comment-385 JoAnn Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:14:23 +0000 http://www.devyou.com/mind/on-sacrificing-who-we-are#comment-385 At a very low point in my life, my partner of 5 years had just told me he was no longer in love with me, I was driving home from my 25th high school reunion from Pennsylvania back to Kentucky. I began crying and asking whatever is out there (God or whatever) to give me some sign. I suddenly realized I had somehow taken an exit off the interstate. I had to turn around in some tiny town and get back on the interstate, where the on-ramp was backed up due to road work. Traffic was crawling, I was behind a station wagon, where someone had written this Du Bois quote on the back of the vehicle. I realized at that moment that I was ready to sacrifice who I was and live a completely different life. This quote changed my life. Thank you! At a very low point in my life, my partner of 5 years had just told me he was no longer in love with me, I was driving home from my 25th high school reunion from Pennsylvania back to Kentucky. I began crying and asking whatever is out there (God or whatever) to give me some sign. I suddenly realized I had somehow taken an exit off the interstate. I had to turn around in some tiny town and get back on the interstate, where the on-ramp was backed up due to road work. Traffic was crawling, I was behind a station wagon, where someone had written this Du Bois quote on the back of the vehicle.
I realized at that moment that I was ready to sacrifice who I was and live a completely different life. This quote changed my life.

Thank you!

]]> By: Cosmo http://www.devyou.com/buddhism/on-sacrificing-who-we-are/comment-page-1#comment-89 Cosmo Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:00:48 +0000 http://www.devyou.com/mind/on-sacrificing-who-we-are#comment-89 Isn't it ironic that being positive will cause your friends to give you little jabs and tell you how 'unrealistic' that is?! I used to work with an elderly man who was very upbeat. When I asked him how he got to that point he said, "A long time ago my wife and I decided being positive and happy was much preferable to being negative and unhappy. We decided then and there to choose to be positive." When Su Bong Zen Master asked "What is the short-cut to Zen?" Zen Master Seung Sahn said "Not for me." This "not for me" is very important. Why are we in this world? What is our purpose? Not for me. Good post. Isn’t it ironic that being positive will cause your friends to give you little jabs and tell you how ‘unrealistic’ that is?!

I used to work with an elderly man who was very upbeat. When I asked him how he got to that point he said, “A long time ago my wife and I decided being positive and happy was much preferable to being negative and unhappy. We decided then and there to choose to be positive.”

When Su Bong Zen Master asked “What is the short-cut to Zen?” Zen Master Seung Sahn said “Not for me.”

This “not for me” is very important. Why are we in this world? What is our purpose? Not for me.

Good post.

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