Psychological suffering is caused by a chronic lack of attention. Without attention we have little hope of gaining insight. For this reason our inner growth is often prodded slowly along by pain instead of inspiration. We traverse this default path of pain until we discover there is another—the way of attention, insight, and awakening.
Our lack of attention means a lack of intimacy with reality. This plays out in ...
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