The quotes are spot on, especially ones stemming from radical awareness and knowing impermanence. Understanding them, however, then embodying the meaning? There's the fun part.
I've said this for years before it really meant something. It means nothing until it clicks and then, suddenly, it's comical how simple and elusive it is and was. It's not not caring. It's not blinding and deafening yourself to the noise. Rather, it's tuning into the noise and sitting with it - not as an owner, not as a victim, not as a bystander more so as a curious and objective witness.
Sitting in our discomfort until it's not so much uncomfortable as much as it's known to be a state that will leave. It may come again (when there's something more to comprehend) and it will leave again, too. The sooner we get & incorporate what something means to us and how that meaning affects us (mentally, physically, and emotionally/spiritually) the easier and sooner it leaves and stays away as 'being' replaces that liminal waiting space of 'knowing'.
When something cannot, will not, be put down; clarity can arrive from these squalls if and when we allow our selves to still long enough to feel clearly. Think water, ripples vs. stillness.
What of the things we can put down?
The more we put them down; the more we forget what we were holding, and why we were holding it in the first place. Then, naturally, slowly, as suddenly as it seems, we can realize we have released that which was never ours to carry, hold, or keep in the first place and then we...
