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A lamp — Subharnab Majumdar, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsWhat are you carrying today?
Choose the situation closest to yours, or describe it in your own words, and the masters and texts that speak to it will gather.
01I have lost someoneSomeone I love has died, and I do not know how to carry it.02I am afraidAnxiety runs under everything. I cannot stop bracing for what might happen.03I keep losing my temperI lost my temper again with someone I love, and I hate myself for it.04I don't know what I believeI was raised in a tradition and I no longer know if any of it is true.05I don't know what my life is forI am doing all the things, and none of it seems to be for anything.06I have failedI tried, and it did not work, and I am not sure I can try again.07I am ill, or in painMy body is failing me, and I do not know how to be with it.08I feel aloneEven among people, I am alone. Nobody really knows me.09I want too muchI get what I want and it is never enough. I cannot stop wanting.10I am thinking about deathMy own, or in general. I want to look at it, not away from it.11My mind will not be stillI sit down to be quiet and the mind runs like a wild thing. I cannot concentrate.12My work feels emptyI spend most of my life working and none of it feels like it matters.13How do I love better?I want to love the people in my life well, and I keep getting it wrong.14I want to begin, but where?I feel the pull toward something deeper and I have no idea what to actually do.15I want peace, and to be of useI am not in crisis. I just want to live more quietly and give more than I take.
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