If any of
you wants to go where I go, you must stop romancing your small self, face your greatest challenge, and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But
if you let it go for my sake and for the sake of what the world needs to see and here, you
will find your truest self. --Jesus
The
emptiness of self shows itself first in our lack of control over our supposedly
fixed 'self.' Anyone who turns inward to meditation or prayer immediately
encounters the ever-changing thought stream of mind, the endless ripples of
moods and emotions that color each moment. These thought streams and emotions
have a life of their own. In
meditation we can shift our attention from the sense of everything being
consciously tied together as 'my experience' to a more silent, less possessive
observation. This silent observation allows us to see the first aspect of
emptiness, called selflessness or egolessness. --Jack Kornfield
‘It is
easiest for God to find us when we are not there.' --Angelus
Silesius
