"**If someone we knew took traffic signals personally, we would judge them insane**. Yet this is exactly what life is doing to us. It tells us to come to a stop here. Or that some intersection is blocked or that a particular road has been rerouted through an inconvenient detour. **We can’t argue or yell this problem away. We simply accept it**." ([Location 1769](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00IX49OS4&location=1769)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[teaching-anecdotes]], [[mindfulness]], [[adversity]], [[failure]], [[obstacle-is-the-way]] **Source** -- [[202409180132 - B - The Obstacle is the Way]]