Quotes About Stuckness

Dukkha is not the self-inflicted stress of a technology executive; it's the real stuff, the kind of suffering that merits the Pali word's original meaning: brokenness, stuckness.

Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the psychic predecessor of all real understanding.

An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.

Stuckness. That's what I want to talk about today. Back

It's this understanding of Quality as revealed by stuckness which so often makes self-taught mechanics so superior to institute-trained men who have learned how to handle everything except a new situation.

Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.

Trying to cheer yourself up isn't easy, and sometimes it feels hypocritical, like going against the grain. But the reminder is that if you want to change your habitual stuckness, you're the only one who can do it.

We like to think, in our anthropocentric way, that irony means that you transcended something, but actually, what it means is that you've realised that you're stuck in something, and you have this kind of uncanny awareness of that, and there's not much you can do about that feeling of stuckness.