Sublime

Inside the word emergency is emerge; from an emergency new things come forth. The old certainties are crumbling fast, but danger and possibility are sisters.

Without conflict and opposition, the ego meets its own emptiness—not in the sense of being bad or deficient, but in the sense of being only an image in opposition with itself. In the willingness to stop asserting and/or denying the ego, you come to see that the ego has no fundamental substance to it, that it is empty of true nature. But be very

find ourselves resolving feelings we never admitted we had. Open-mindedness gives us the ability to see more and more clearly within ourselves as we go through the never-ending process of surrendering, taking inventory, and inviting change.

“Emergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions.”

The clash is epic and internal, between the ego and the Self, and the stakes are our lives.

“Emergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions”—I will repeat these words from Nick Obolenksy throughout this book because they are the clearest articulation of emergence that I have come across.