…when you look out the window and it’s the most beautiful sunset ever, and you’re just looking at the sunset. You’re fully connected with its beauty.

Those are all moments where you’re losing your sense of self.

The difference between meditation and those moments, is that you’re not really aware of losing the sense of self in those moments. You’re not really aware of what is freeing about those moments, and you can’t do it in other circumstances…like I need the beautiful sunset. Just looking at your shoe isn’t good enough for me.

But with meditation, I can actually look at your shoe in the same way that I look at a sunset.

What’s happening for most people is that they’re waiting for the world to give them a good enough reason to just be present. And to be present so fully that they lose their sense of self.

Sam Harris, Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu podcast

-Brandon