It is not easy to bring others into one’s struggle with attachment. The thing that makes it most difficult is the very thing that makes it most helpful: it destroys the interior secrecy upon which our mind tricks thrive. Attachment makes us fool ourselves, and it makes us feel like fools in the eyes of others. Yet others’ eyes are essential, for our own eyes see only what they want. We might wish it were easier, but being seen by others is part of the desert experience.
