Adyashanti, Emptiness Dancing

 When awareness removes itself from any fiction about self, life, or others, what is left is truth. You can't say anything about what that is because then it becomes an idea. But to see, perceive, and experience life without any story, so that the bottom falls out of the center, is actually the greatest act of compassion you can do for yourself or others because then you are "self-less." Self-less is actually a literal thing, to be without a center, without a story; it is not the image the mind holds of selfless, which is a romanticized idea about self-sacrifice.

Self-less is being without a self.

To have no center is not at all what the mind thinks it is.

To realize that you already have no center is to realize a very deep and abiding love, a love that's inherent— that's not produced. It is a causeless love.

There is no reason to be at peace, but you are. Even when you have no reason to feel good or be happy, you are still at peace. Love always seeks the alleviation of suffering, not through the alleviation of the story, but through the alleviation of the storyteller, which is the illusion of the me.