How can we give birth to our true self? How can we emerge from our falsity and assume our true identity?The supreme practicality of spiritual life,the practicality of a drowning man who does not hesitate to drop his treasure in order to grab the rope. Buddha's sermon speaks we are all on fire,the question is can we get out of the fire while there is still time? Got this paragraph from Merton's Palace of Nowhere. I find it so amazing and true. How much longer to entertain dramas, misinterpretations, self doubt, neglect, arrogance, egoic thinking and wanting, patterns of fear and guilt..worrying over the arguments we had,who is right, defending our status... When can we surrender to the glow within? When can we surrender to the open heart that is open when we allow to be more transparent? Love... and everything that's not love eventually brings us back to Love, more and more profoundly so.