The Winds of Fortune Change - T'ien Yiheng

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. — Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy’s line hinges on a paradox: the very event you label “bad luck” may be a hidden shield. By suggesting that misfortune can function as protection, he nudges the reader away from instant judgment and toward...

You are the sky. Everything else—it's just the weather. — Pema Chödrön

Pema Chödrön

Pema Chödrön’s line hinges on a simple but expansive metaphor: awareness is the sky, while thoughts, emotions, and circumstances are weather. The sky is vast enough to hold anything without being permanently altered by i...

You are the sky. Everything else—it’s just the weather. — Pema Chödrön

Pema Chödrön

Pema Chödrön’s line offers a simple but radical reframe: who you are is not the passing content of experience, but the spacious awareness in which experience appears. If the mind is “the sky,” then thoughts, moods, and e...

You are the sky. Everything else—it’s just the weather. — Pema Chödrön

Pema Chödrön

Pema Chödrön’s line begins with a simple reversal: instead of identifying with everything that happens inside you, she invites you to identify with the capacity that can hold it. The “sky” points to awareness itself—wide...

You are the sky. Everything else—it’s just the weather. — Pema Chödrön

Pema Chödrön

Pema Chödrön’s line draws a clean distinction between what we are and what we experience. If you are the sky, then thoughts, emotions, and external events are like weather systems—temporary patterns moving through a much...

You are the sky. Everything else—it’s just the weather. — Pema Chödrön

Pema Chödrön

Pema Chödrön’s line begins with a simple but radical reframing: what we most fundamentally are is not the swirl of thoughts and feelings, but the open awareness in which they appear. By calling you “the sky,” she points...