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Zach's avatar

I can't remember where I heard it but I just recently came across a great answer to the question "what do you do?" Like at a party or some function with strangers and you're chatting with someone and they ask you, "so what do you do?"... my new answer is "as little as possible." It could possibly be off-putting to some but I do love the subversiveness of that answer... and it's also true! Ha ha!

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Christie L's avatar

Wow, this: “But at some point in my journey… it no longer seemed…that the goal was for a mirage-like self to stabilize permanently in an open, boundless, free dimension of experience and eradicate any sense of being a person…”. This one really hits the hammer on the un-nail-downable head for me. THE answer to this little me’s life koan, the whole spirituality project. I’m aware that any “answer” is still just a pointer but… this one immediately cuts through all the striving (in the ultimate illusion indulgence) and invites me into the open arms of just being, in whatever form Being shows up. And it leads me to: When I’m free to be a human (relatively and absolutely), I’m free to be all of This. Thank you Joan!

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