"Yet instead of seizing this path to power, we choose ingratitude and the insecurity of needing more, more, more. “**We are here as if immersed in water head and shoulders underneath the great oceans**,” said the [[zen]] master [[Gensha]], “**and yet how pitiously we are extending our hands for water**.” We think we need more and don’t realize we already have so much. **We work so hard “for our families” that we don’t notice the contradiction—that it’s because of work that we never see them**." ([Location 1373](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07QY3CZ9L&location=1373)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[mindfulness]], [[personal-values]], [[parenting]], [[work-life-balance]], [[self-control]], [[routines]], [[bad-habits]] **Source** -- [[202409180133 - B - Stillness is the Key]]