The Big Pause: Finding Freedom In Stressful Situations

Recently, I heard someone refer to this new normal of the coronavirus era as The Big Pause. When we encounter any large and abrupt change in life, resistance is a natural response. Based on our experiences from the past, our ideas about what things should be like don’t match the reality of what’s happening here and now.

The distance between these two points is in direct proportion to the amount of our suffering: our resistance to things as they are.