If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me

By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords." (p. 28)

Then, if action is possible or necessary, you take action or rather right action happens through you. Right action is action that is appropriate to the whole. When the action is accomplished, the alert, spacious stillness remains.

Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.

The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.

Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new, between mind identification and presence.

How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.