You flee within

“You flee within through contraction, through inversion, through dissociative emotion, in order to protect yourself, and then you focus your attention on your own self-sense and the products of it—the thoughts, the tendencies, the reactions, the self-imagery, and everything associated with self-possession. You are all fleeing from your parents—not just your blood relations, but the meanings in your own body-mind—and yet you do not escape. You imagine yourself to be escaping somehow because you are withdrawn. But your withdrawal can never be so far within or away that you actually escape these meanings, because the meanings are in you. They are you, you see.”

–Adi Da