Generally we do not recognize that our social identities are molded and confined by context, and that these outer layers of ourselves exist within a boundless reality. Habitual patterns cover over this boundless reality; they obscure it, but it is always there ready to be uncovered.
Mingyur Rinpoche
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Further quotes from the book In Love with the World :
- The masks that hide our true selves
- The chattering voice in our heads
- Only with recognition
- Dying is rebirth
- Ego-grasping death comes before life
- Spacious awareness
- Identifying the sickness for ourselves
- Stretching a bit further
- Facing suffering
- Short moments, many times
- Awareness contains impermanence
- The source of what we like or do not like
- Reverse activity
- Accepting whatever happens
- Within each one of us
- Nothing endures but change
- Vast and intimate
- Great news
- It’s how we relate to emotions