Failure kills the smallest part

when the separate self is afraid of failure or fails, it is just the smallest part of us that dies. The thing that dies is not what we are. The thing that fails is not what we are. We are all that holds that thing.

We are the alive space, the body, the ground of being, the heart, the mind, and the separate self, all at the same time. And so, when the separate self is afraid of failure or fails, it is just the smallest part of us that dies. And we can actually learn to hold ourselves, our separate self, as it dies, and makes it all so much less dramatic and less painful.