Donald Hoffman

So in some sense, it's harder for them to wake up.

But for everybody, I would say, whether you had the hard road or the easy road, my own feeling is...

Spending time alone in silence and just watching your emotions, watching your thoughts, and then returning to silence, I think is the way, because that silence is you.

That silence between thoughts and the silence that's able to watch an emotion without identifying with the emotion, that silence is you.

And so when you realize that

You transcend any description.

There is no word.

There is no word, no doctrine, nothing that gets you.

You transcend anything that can be said infinitely.

So ultimately, the only thing that you can do to know who you are is to sit there and let go of every concept.

Wow.

Because you transcend.

Any concept is immediately putting you into a little straitjacket.

That's not you.

You cannot think big enough about yourself.

So you just don't think at all because no thought is big enough.

So you transcend all thoughts and that's who you are.

Once you do that, then you can go back into this world and play and enjoy.

And instead of competing against others.

Give them a hand up.