The Burning of the Ego

I think that we don't trust life to make itself again. That's a more existential fear than all the clamor around us. But when we decide to turn away from the clamor and we start to feel ourselves burning, then there's a deeper fear. I want them to experience the discipline of forever being pulled away from the interior. They would have to live through the exhaustion and the frustration and the isolation but choose to wholeheartedly give care over and over again rather than walk away. And one of my favorite passages is this: "Few of the wise souls who have devoted years to contemplating the structure of the cosmos could tell us how to practice"