From "The Seeker's Guide"

If you drew a long line and put modern cynicism at the start and Beginner’s Mind at the end, you’d have a map for the contemporary spiritual pilgrim. Somehow our culture has evolved to the point where pessimism has become synonymous with intelligence, and where an overload of information is mistaken for knowledge.

If we bypass our humanness, each path leads back to the same question: What are we hiding from in ourselves and in each other?
Rumi called this the “Open Secret.” The veils we wear so we won’t see our foolishness, our pain, our tenderness. We hide from the secret fact of our very humanness. “The full catastrophe” as Nikos Kazatzakis had Zorba the Greek call it.