Can you see the particular ways in which you avoid really being with your life? Do you know what strategies you use to guarantee some sense of safety and familiarity, to avoid facing the fears — of rejection, loss, unworthiness, or failure — that lie beneath the surface of your thoughts and actions?
Genuine spiritual practice is never about fixing ourselves, because we're not broken. It's about becoming awake to who we really are, to the vastness of our True Nature, which includes even the parts of ourselves we label as "bad."
— Ezra Bayda, At Home in the Muddy Water