Burden

Burden is the degree to which you are distracted from your own patterns, your own rhythms. Anything that doesn’t resonate with your internal sense of self will be perceived as a burden. The reason burden, and bearing it arises, is because we have come to ignore our true natures, often to the detriment of our physical and mental health.

There is a way that we can be in the world, but it begins by putting our personal presence first. Only then can we be present for others and others be fully present for us. The only good you have to offer is your own good. The only good you can really receive is your own good.

All burden is paradox. In every vision of burden, you have the secret of freedom as well. If life is burden then Atlas will inevitably weep, but if life is the place where you live, then even the biggest challenges will leave no lasting scars.

“Every burden is a blessing.” Walt Kelly

“No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.” Max Planck