Story

“Have you ever felt that your life was like a cheap novel? Like a Nancy Drew series in which, after one story was told and you thought that was going to be the end of it, you found out the author had just spit out another one, and as soon as you finish that one, a new story comes along. But you never find the author in the book. The author never gives himself up and always remains outside the book. The mind is like that. After many stories, the little character in the mind says, ‘I need to be enlightened. I need to find the source. I need to find God. I need to be liberated. I need to be beyond life and death.’ And then at some point it realizes, ‘Oh, that’s a story!’ and wonders, ‘Who am I without the story?’ You put down the book called, ‘My Life.’ You see that there is no story and there is no me. The me is a story. The whole story springs spontaneously out of nothing, out of spirit, for its own enjoyment. It exists for you to read it -- laugh a little, cry a little, have ups, have downs, have lives, have deaths, have friends, have enemies -- but never to be taken seriously.”

~ Adyashanti

Emptiness Dancing
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