Yes, invite death. Serve tea and make friends with it. Then you won’t have anything more to worry about. She laughed but promised (Location 857)
What if, I now asked myself, we could enter relationships more like we enter a train? We know that the train will move, then stop, and move again, through changing landscapes and weather systems. (Location 913)
Often the inarticulate dread of distant physical death gets mixed up with a closer, daily, more pressing—though unacknowledged—fear of the disintegration of the self. (Location 957)
At the same time, each new moment also provides a chance to relate to old patterns in new ways. If we do not take advantage of these opportunities, then there is nothing to interrupt the inherited karma of negative mind states. We inherently have free will, yet this only arises from an examined mind. (Location 1016)
Until we learn how to examine our minds and direct our behavior, our karmic tendencies will compel habits to reseed themselves. (Location 1019)
To be at home everywhere meant not getting hooked by sights, sounds, and smells that attract and repel. (Location 1061)
I assumed that some spot would emerge as a safe place to stop; and that once I arrived there, the waves of discomfort would die down. (Location 1097)
we often get caught in the illusion that arriving at a predetermined destination will end the mental agitation of feeling in-between. This happens when we do not know the continuity of awareness—or when we know but still lose the connection. (Location 1100)
Yet the true meaning of in-between has nothing to do with physical references but is about the anxiety of dislocation, of having left behind a mental zone of comfort, and not yet having arrived anywhere that restores that ease. (Location 1107)