yearning

                    1999                 150 cm X 80 cm

In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while relinquishing things that do not matter to us. A lukewarm yearning for awakening is not enough to sustain us through difficulties involved in letting go. It is important to understand that anything that can be lost was never truly ours, anything that we deeply cling to only imprisons us.

--Christina Feldman and Jack Kornfield,

Stories of the Spirit, Stories of the Heart