From the chapter "Selfing" in Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn:

The elusive nature of a concrete, permanent, unchanging self is quite a hopeful observation. It means that you can stop taking yourself so damn seriously and get out from under the pressures of having the details of your personal life be central to the operating of the universe. By recognizing and letting go of selfing impulses, we accord the universe a little more room to make things happen. Since we are folded into the universe and participate in its unfolding, it will defer in the face of too much self-centered, self-indulgent, self-critical, self-insecure, self-anxious activity on our part, and arrange for the dream world of our self-oriented thinking to look and feel only too real.

_{(cf. FreedomEvolves (2003-07-03), Unselfing (2009-01-14), ...) - ^z - 2009-11-01}