“We have two alternatives: either we take everything to be sure and real-or we don’t. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality-or we begin to question them. To train to stay open and curious-to train in dissolving the barriers that we erect between ourselves and the world-is the best use of our human lives. When we train in awakening, we are nurturing the fundamental flexibility of our being. In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness, as adaptability, as humour, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure about who we are-or who anyone else is either.” ` ~ Pema Chodron

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