Turning the Wheel Quotes

“student wrote: If one is trying to do something really well, one becomes, first of all, interested in it, and later absorbed in it,which means that one forgets oneself in concentrating on what one is doing. But when one forgets oneself, oneself ceases to exist, since oneself is the only thing which causes oneself to exist. —Christmas Humphreys, Concentration and Meditation For”
― Charles R. Johnson, Turning the Wheel: Essays on Buddhism and Writing