Underneath our ordinary ...

Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there\'s a fundamental groundlessness. It\'s there bubbling along all the time. We experience it as restlessness and edginess. We experience it as fear. It motivates passion, aggression, ignorance, jealousy, and pride, but we never get down to the essence of it.
Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's a fundamental groundlessness. It's there bubbling along all the time. We experience it as restlessness and edginess. We experience it as fear. It motivates passion, aggression, ignorance, jealousy, and pride, but we never get down to the essence of it.

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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.
The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.