Hello, and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting

a little better at life.

I'm your host, Cory Muscara, and in today's episode we're going to talk about complaining

or rejoicing.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

Okay, I'd like to start this episode off with a quote, the author of which is unknown

at the moment, and it says, you can complain that roses have thorns or rejoice that thorns

have roses.

You can complain that roses have thorns or rejoice that thorns have roses.

So this is one of those quotes that is very simple.

You could even write it off as trait, but if you really feel into it, it can pack a punch

and it can point to a reorienting toward our experience, it can be quite profound in

its fullest expression.

Now this is talking about roses and thorns that come with roses, but it's a great analogy

for life, because life has roses and life has thorns.

But the message of this quote isn't just to embrace the roses and the thorns, it's

a particular way of orienting toward each of those, and so you can look at the roses

of life, the goodness of life, the gift of being alive, and all that comes with that,

and complain that this also comes with thorns, or you can look at the thorns, the pains

that might be there, and rejoice that this also comes with roses.

Can you feel how that's different than just saying embrace the good and the bad?

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