Catherine Louise BirminghamAs in riding, so is it in life.
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In horseback riding, you have to be careful about how you sit in the saddle. If you’re too far forward, you can easily fall off. Too far aft or backward and you’ll be in danger of being thrown from the horse. And so it is with life.
If we’re too rigid, we won’t be able to take the right actions in a given situation. If we’re too fluid, we won’t know when to take action. We need to sit in the middle of that saddle and use our equanimity to ride through life.
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