Fundamentally, there is just open space, the basic ground, what we really are. Our most fundamental state of mind, before the creation of ego, is such that there is basic openness, basic freedom, a spacious quality; and we have now and have always had this openness.

Chögyam Trungpa

from the book The Sanity We Are Born With: A Buddhist Approach to Psychology

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