Joan Lunden describes worry as "paying dues on a debt not yet incurred" and explains how her children inherited the same habit. She credits Brian Luke Seaward's Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water with teaching her to stay present instead of anxious about imagined futures.
I'm an old man who has known a great many problems, most of which never happened. And there's another one. That's like paying dues on a debt not yet incurred.
Mm.
I love that one. That one hits hard. And sometimes my kids will say things. I'm saying, uh-uh-uh. They'll say, I know I'm paying dues on a debt not yet incurred. I said, you are. Like, you're worrying about something that's probably not going to happen.
You do a great impression of your kids, and I've never met them. Okay, so the big question. Yeah. How did Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water by Brian Luke Seaward, a hippie from Colorado, change your life?
Uh, he made me
