"The goal of the fourfold task, I would argue, is to lead an integrated life.

An integrated life is the outcome of having embraced the suffering world, let go of reactivity and beheld reactivity's ceasing. From this still and empty space one then responds with intuitions, thoughts, intentions, words and acts that are not determined by reactivity.

The moment in which reactivity ceases is also the moment that allows a "complete view" (the first branch of the path) to emerge." 

After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a secular age