The Essentials - by Joan Tollifson

[Tom Dietvorst]

The awakening journey, as I see it, is about discovering the love, the beauty, the joy, the wonder, the wholeness of life right here in each ordinary moment. And sometimes it’s about feeling the pain, the grief, the anger, the sorrow that is part of being alive. It’s also about seeing (in the moment, as it happens) how thought, along with the habitual movements of grasping and resisting, create needless suffering and confusion. And it’s about discovering the open, spacious, unbound aliveness and wholeness of presence itself. This aliveness right here, right now is the heart of what...is all about...And this is always already fully present, waiting to be noticed, enjoyed and explored. It is simplicity itself. Thinking is complicated. Presence is simple. It is always already here.

https://joantollifson.substack.com/p/the-essentials