Near Enemies of the Truth: Avoid the Pitfalls of the Spiritual Life and Become Radically Free

You can feel it. You’ve felt it your whole life. You’ve always known there’s something inside of you that’s sought to be born, fresh and real. You know there’s something inside you, far beyond your imagination, that’s been trying to break out and be. Everyone feels this inside. But to allow life to express itself in that way, with that much abandon

What you’ll find is that the only thing you really want from life is to feel enthusiasm, joy, and love. If you can feel that all the time, then who cares what happens outside? If you can always feel up, if you can always feel excited about the experience of the moment, then it doesn’t make any difference what the experience is. No matter what it is

So we ignore it, this voice of our destiny, of our ultimate destination. And ignoring that voice will bring us nothing but discontent. But if we can listen to this voice, accept its challenges, and expand instead of contract into suffering, we will find our true selves.

This plunge into the dazzling dark of our unimaginable Being requires an intuitive leap of love. Yes, love. For it is love—love of truth, love of God, love for our fellow creatures—that compels us to leap into the abyss of unknowingness at our core that is beyond description. We leap into this abyss because we care. We care for our own well-being,