Through the disciplined precision of our efforts, we'll come again and
again to our edge—the difficult places beyond which we've previously
been unable to move. Through the willingness to soften and surrender
to what is, we learn that we can gradually move beyond that edge. It
is only through this interplay of hard and soft, of effort and letting
be, of will and willingness, that we learn to our amazement that we
can emerge from the lifelong tunnel of fear that constitutes our
substitute life into the nitty-gritty reality of our genuine one.
–Ezra Bayda, from Being Zen: Bringing Meditation to Life (Shambhala)
