The Essential : Discovering What Really Matters in an Age of Distraction

We see that deeper than our story lies our essence, our true nature, our full expression.

Today, we have access to massive amounts of information, yet we are longing for something else, for wisdom.

No change in our external world can ever satiate what is unresolved in our internal world. Then the path opens.

I realized that humans had a power I never knew was possible: the power to be with whatever is emerging in a way that does not add more difficulty and pain. The pain is there, but something else is also there, a presence or spaciousness.

The real issue isn't that other people put labels on us, it’s that we believe those labels.

I was not able to process what was happening, and isolation seemed like the best approach. I did not want anyone to see the pain I was in because I did not want to see the pain I was in.

The algorithms try to convince us that everything non-essential in life (our status, what a celebrity just did) is essential, and everything actually essential (time with friends, time in nature) is not essential.

But it is only the way it is because people believe it to be that way.

It is about tapping into an intelligence that has nothing to do with our age, our job title, the size of our bank account, or whether we are deemed successful or unsuccessful in the world. Thankfully, there is another dimension.