And unfortunately, we seek happiness in the very heart of our dissatisfaction. We look for happiness in the heart of longing, and we just get more interesting longing. When we get the job we want, we find ourselves wanting to want something else again. To be able to feel this poignancy and not turn away from it; this would be the felt aspect of Wakefulness. To know true intimacy and not try to hide in the illusory redoubt of the self would be Wakefulness. To not go and find the little reeds and straws of additional excitement and status to build the nest of the self-enclosed self would be
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