drop what you aren't

all the effort invested into the creation of a self is quite amazing and exhausting; just drop the effort and there you really are: peace

this is one of the paradoxes surrounding spiritual practice: expending effort to become something that you already are

meanwhile all this effort is being expended in creating something that you aren't

but you can't become something that you already are; just drop what you aren't

then there is no effort to 'be' a self; there is no practice to become a being; there is only being: be