Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening

(anguish and its origins) describe the dilemma,

Instead of clinging to habitual behavior and routines as a means to secure this sense of self, we realize the freedom to create who we are.

because of the unprecedented and unrepeatable matrix of conditions that have formed me.

What counts is not so much the destination but the resolve to take the next step.

Awareness is a process of deepening self-acceptance.

remember to remember.

ANGUISH EMERGES FROM craving for life to be other than it is.

The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are challenges to act.

(cessation and the path) its resolution.