Anxiety, Heartbreak, Tenderness and the Softening Our Hearts

Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness 

mark the in-between state. 

It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. 

The challenge is to stay in the middle 

rather than buy into struggle and complaint. 

The challenge is to let it soften us rather than 

make us more rigid and afraid.

— Pema Chödrön