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Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you're the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you're not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we have the benefit of their accumulated wisdom.

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

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At the last stages of the journey, there's no journey at all.

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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.

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

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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
Albert Camus

Jay Michaelson

Jay Michaelson

Born: 1971 (age 54)
Bio: Jay Michaelson is a writer and teacher in the United States who writes on law, religion, Judaism, and LGBT issues. Michaelson is legal affairs and religion columnist at The Daily Beast and a contributing editor to The Forward, newspaper.
Known for:
  1. God in Your Body (2006)

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