The single taste of reality unadorned is the beginning of an entire life’s journey. Nothing else brings the deep gratification that raw nature has already presented us with.
It is not by pumping up that we are touched by the most extraordinary experiences life has to offer, but by stripping down.
For many of us, this single taste of reality unadorned is the beginning of an entire life’s journey, activating a drive that will not or cannot be satisfied by anything less than the real thing: not to be good or liked or loved, to fix something or fit in or impress.
All this proves illusory, unsatisfactory. To begin this venture is to begin to sharpen the blade of discernment. To know in our bones, the way one knows how to dance or knows the felt sense of truth, and to allow ourselves to be drawn by that.