We Can Travel a Long Way

We can travel a long way and do many different things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. It is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home. True happiness may not be at all far away, but it requires a radical change of view as to where to find it.

Sharon Salzberg

This hits home with me. I can,t say much to add to this. A friend of mine said to me the other day that those who are enlightened don,t talk about it. I am not sure why she said this to me. She should be able to see by the amount that I talk about it that I am not enlightened.

It never seems to stop that I am making new insights into myself and  developing deeper awareness of my habitual ways. I am continually discovering new things about myself and letting go of old things is not always easy.

I can say that I am more aware these days. That awareness involves  the realization that I am not what I was taught that I am or that I should be. It is in the letting go of the habitual drive to better myself and to be other than I am that I can see truthfully who  I am. It is something empty of conventional notions of  greatness or striving for it or of any other such concept.

I like to reflect and talk and to inquire into these things. I think that there is some advantage in doing this. It can be a finger pointing to the moon.