The Buddha often said that wherever you find water, you can tell if it’s
the ocean because the ocean always tastes of salt. By the same token,
anywhere you find enlightenment —whatever improbable or unfamiliar
shape it may have assumed— you can tell it’s enlightenment
because enlightenment always tastes of freedom.
Not comfort. Not ease. Freedom.
~ Martha Beck
What an amazing distinction - comfort is often misunderstood as freedom, ease is often mistaken for freedom, but true freedom is neither comfortable nor easy. Freedom is an imperative that leaves you no choice but to move toward the cliff and barely braced, compels you to jump off.
If you’re scared to death because a decision you have to make is taking you like a fast moving train toward a 100 foot drop, then baby hang on, because you’re on the path to freedom.
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