Jul 25, 2025
Underneath all the drama, the restlessness, the hopes and fears, behind the narratives we weave about ourselves, and even before we’ve thought of ourselves as ourselves, lies a simple, unadorned awareness. It’s not even a thing—just an event that happens, a little burst of knowing, deep in the center of it all.
— Andrew Olendzki, Untangling Self: A Buddhist Investigation of Who We Really Are (Wisdom Publications, December 13, 2016) (via Alive on All Channels)