The Buddhist parable about the second arrow is that when bad things happen to us, two arrows are fired. One is life hitting you with misfortune the second one is optional for that is the arrow of suffering that we fire at ourselves. Pain in life is inevitable, but suffering doesn’t always have to be.
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I’ve spent much of my life suffering from my own arrows. Childhood trauma is impossible to “just get over” BUT I have spent much of my life silencing myself with my own arrows disguised as truths.
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10” x 20” Oil on gallery wrapped canvas