Sublime

as the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh puts it, we “keep our appointment with life.”

When we drop below our stories, we are led back to the mystery of here and now.

In any given moment, you can either choose to function effortlessly from awareness or from the illusion that you are a person. The more you decline the mind’s invitations, the easier it will become to choose awareness.

By letting go of identification with the self who knows things and controls things, I feel lighter inside—both in terms of feeling less bogged down and feeling more full of light.

One of the essential characteristics of awakened people is that they are free of the taking for granted syndrome.

Release opinions, free yourself from views. Be open to mystery.

On the pathless path, knowing you have enough is what gives you the freedom to say “no” to clear financial opportunities and say “yes” to something that might bring you alive and might even pay off much more over the long term.

The late British Zen master Hōun Jiyu-Kennett, born Peggy Kennett, had a vivid way of capturing the sense of inner release that can come from grasping just how intractable our human limitations really are. Her teaching style, she liked to say, was not to lighten the burden of the student, but to make it so heavy that he or she would put it down.

Mindfulness sees things as they really are