Holding on to beliefs limits our experience of life. That doesn't mean that
beliefs or ideas or thinking is a problem; the stubborn attitude of having
to have things be a particular way, grasping on to our beliefs and
thoughts, all these cause the problems. To put it simply, using your belief
system this way creates a situation in which you choose to be blind instead
of being able to see, to be deaf instead of being able to hear, to be dead
rather than alive, asleep rather than awake.

Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are