Author puts a little too much emphasis on language as of necessary value to this concept, we feel.

"Being" requires literally zero effort. One doesn't clench to "be".

To understand ourselves, we need only examine the efforts we find ourselves making and ask ourselves "Why do we believe we need to do this?"... and then answer that question, plus all the others that come up, as completely as possible.

Understanding ourselves means accepting that we were born without language; we communicate with our bodies by feeling them.

Language is an attempt to break down the universe, to parse it into little bits and pieces, so that those individual facets can be explored, possibly even articulated. Yet language itself creates... nothing; rather it merely reflects what is.

What is does not require maintaining - it's why we can sleep at all. What is can be felt simply by relaxing completely... if one is capable of relaxing enough to feel. Like a fist clenched too tightly for too long, those cut off from their feelings by the impulse to "do" oft end up forgetting what it is to simply... be.

If "What we practice, we improve at" is true... well, a species-wide blindspot can be problematic.