experience. We still recognize patterns in our experience, but there is a more fluid and fresh patterning to the flow of experience.

We need to find that love because otherwise the only reason and motivation for inquiry is a particular goal or aim, or to confirm an established position. Then we would ultimately be trying to assert a particular identity we’ve defined ourselves by, and that motivation will not take us anywhere new.

Once in a while, when there is a little gap in that knowledge, we freak out: “Oh, there’s something here I don’t know. What am I going to do next?”

Some call it the small self. But this identity is actually a distortion of what we really are, which is a completely open flow out of the mystery of Being.

Normally you try right away to fit your insights into the framework of the old knowledge. But these insights are actually puncturing your familiar experience of the world. And in time, you start realizing, “Wait a minute! I am having all these insights, and they are punching holes in my world.” You are feeling a loss of support, and at a certain

The Diamond Guidance uses the mind, instead of the mind being in control, or in the foreground. It guides the mind, but it is actually the guide for

Inquiry not only leads to greater awareness and understanding of ourselves, but also invites Being to disclose its hidden possibilities through

We try this and that, listen to this teacher or that authority, lose

when there is real love, you can’t help feeling happy in your beloved’s presence. You can’t help but feel, “I want to be there, regardless of whether I save money or not.”