Sublime

So our practice is about making fear conscious, instead of running around inside our cell of fear, trying to make it look better and feel better.

By contrast, as long as we follow our urges, we stay, as it were, on the same level on which they occur. But once we allow them, and offer them a home, then we see that we don’t actually need what they tell us we need. That’s growth and it’s a beautiful thing. It touches and opens our hearts when it occurs. And it affirms what Simone Weil meant

This ancient sage tells us quite openly that the act of simplicity—of living directly—is the doorway to the Source of all Being.

I begin to see that real knowing is possible only in the moment when my attention is full, when consciousness fills everything. Then there are no distinctions—one thing is not more than another. There is pure existence. The creative act is the vision of what takes place. I learn to watch.

Either I am imprisoned by my ordinary sense of “I,” which prevents any contact with my real self, or I have a nostalgia for the “divine” that I feel at the root of my being, which shows me what I must serve. My

When the Buddha made his discoveries, he said, “I have found the builder, and I will not build the house of pain again.” Without your fictions, life has a simplicity that is full of beauty. There is nothing I dislike.

Our central work is to shift—very slowly, usually over a lifetime—from a self-centered view of things to a life-centered view of things.