You have to start with what you are, where you are now. You are aware of the present state. You are now, you are not past, you are not future, but you are now. In that state of awareness, you don’t need to cling to a concept about who you are and what you will be. Concept cannot exist in the present state, but awareness is very much there.

Chögyam Trungpa

from the book Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness

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