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“ We are animals descended from five billion years of wanting, striving, and seeking. And life just doesn’t cooperate. So we suffer. And so the solution to that problem is to upgrade our minds, in a distinctly ‘unnatural’ way, so that the mind clings less and lets go more. ”

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All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what we might ordinarily take for granted inspires tears.

~ Jay Michaelson

There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.

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What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow.

~ Jay Michaelson

Part of why I love these angry, straight, white punks is that they are stripping the dharma of its bullshit, and applying it to contexts and styles that, even if they aren’t mine, are at least different from the norm.

~ Jay Michaelson