We don’t see, we are what is seen. We don’t hear, we are what is heard. We don’t feel we are what is felt. All boundaries of subject/ object dissolve in the field of open awareness.
At a certain point we realise we can hear something we were unaware of — an all pervasive silence which words, images, concepts and stories had previously drowned out.
If we think we are in some way occluded from what is, that is just a thought that can be seen through.
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
If we truly allow ourselves to be exactly who we are and everything to be exactly as it is then boredom is impossible.
You do not have to be good.
Wild Geese, Mary Oliver
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Take away everything that is not essential and here we truly are.
I can go around saying, ‘There’s no me.’
Jerry Katz
Or I can claim, ‘There IS a me.’
When the energy of both statements has died, what remains has nothing to do with either one.
Contentment not dependent on any particular condition.
The ordinary and extraordinary interchangeable and identical.
Thisness 