You are afraid of the pain in you, and so whenever there is a gap in your day, you fill it up with books or television so these blocks of suffering do not come up to the surface.

I've never had the great pleasure of meeting the late Thich Nhat Hanh in person, but somehow he'd managed to call me out in this book. And I deserved it.

It's truly a shame that he recently passed away (last January 22, 2022). But as he thoughtfully discussed in You Are Here, birth and death are merely concepts - so we should not fear them. In fact, he wrote: There is only continuation, only manifestation, because birth and death are just ideas.

While some readers have criticized this book for being a tad repetitive (and I can see where they're coming from), I think sometimes advice needs to be told over and over before it fully sinks in. Each reiteration of practicing mindfulness - in breathing, in walking, and in doing - hit every single time. And it personally resonated with me.

Highly recommended!