Words&Dirt

“‘When you’re a child you’re the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They’re only ghosts furnished for you to talk to. But when you grow up you take your place and you’re your own size and shape. Things go out of you to others and come in from other people. It’s worse, but it’s much better too.’”

––East of Eden, by John Steinbeck, pg. 576

“No deep dissolution of Self is within your capacity to do. You can’t think your way into it, nor can you imagine it. It happens.”

––Meditating Selflessly: Practical Neural Zen, by James H. Austin, pg. 47