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

We can never become enough. Time is not involved. We can only wake up to who we really are.

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.

It is easy to focus on labels, on who is winning and who is losing, on how things appear to others, but fortunately there is a deeper place from which we can live.

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.

No amount of attention, applause, money, or power makes someone happy. There is another dimension.

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

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

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.

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