Message to self: Get rid of all your baggage. Get rid of all those things you don’t really need and actually impede you. I don’t mean only the physical things, like old shirts in the recesses of your closet. Git rid of anything that does not offer intimacy and deep connection. Ignore attachments and choose only what seems impermanent.
Discard all the baggage that humans have invented or that came from the forge of human imagination. These are not only distractions but actually obscure the presence of real things. Learn to see first whatever has its own internal reality and not the worth and meaning attained through human association.
Begin by getting rid of notions of self, of God and of country. These are all huge artifacts of human invention and rise from the effort to impose meaning and limits on the world. They all keep us at a distance from what is. They keep us separate from what is potentially intimate. They are baggage that keeps us bogged down and apart.