Nothing Personal: Seeing Beyond the Illusion of a Separate Self

No idea you have ever had about yourself has ever lasted.

thoughts and fantasies are not very satisfying or fulfilling. Like watching television for hours on end, they leave us feeling empty. Fortunately, there is a handy alternative to the emptiness of thought: here and now. All that is required is to show up in your life.

By inquiring into truth, we are led ever deeper into the unknown—beyond beliefs and ideas to the very core of who and what we are.

There is nothing in the mind to compare to this moment as long as you take in all of the moment and not just some highly-edited version of it. That is where you will find real nourishment and aliveness.

Once you recognize that there is no “me,” then there can’t be something called “my” will. But there is will—it’s just not “yours.” You mean, I’m not making any choices? What you think you are has never made a choice, and yet choices are being made all the time. Who’s making them? This is a good question! This is a huge mystery, which has been going

As I often say to my own students, “First you awaken out of life, then you awaken as life itself.”