Rather than getting tied up in knots trying to figure out how the whole universe works, or trying to nail down the right metaphysical formulation or the best philosophy, or trying to figure out once and for all what happens after death, I find it much more helpful to drop all our ideas, concepts and beliefs and return again and again to the openness of not knowing and the immediacy and simplicity of this moment, this living presence Here-Now.

Joan Tollifson