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It doesn’t take much reflection to reveal how much of our experience is made up of our opinions about experience. It is enormously liberating to...
Good morning.
This morning, gentle rain. The brook babbles a little louder. Cars hiss by while the dog snores.
If we don’t assimilate and integrate traditional ancient wisdom into the ordinary reality of our own lived experience then we’re completely missing the point.
Paying close attention to our mind and the myriad thoughts that arise, it’s possible to see the difference between thoughts ‘of’ experience and thoughts ‘about’...
So much unnecessary fear, anxiety and suffering (as well as groundless hope and optimism) is caused by confusing a story about what is going on...
This is how I see all brands, slogans and advertising.
““Finding meaning is merely a matter of finding a better story. Stories put your pains and pleasures into a context you can accept. But when...
Good morning.
““You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the...
““Here is not an ‘Either-Or’ crossover but, rather, a ‘Both-And’ revelation.”” — Dennis Gallagher
“Non-Duality. That place where we see that the One manifests as the many and the many are inseparable from the One. It is always around...
Good afternoon.
Happiness has nothing to do with pleasure.
There was a time (even before the printed word) it was thought that the written word signalled the death knell of human wisdom and culture...
Our thoughts and ideas are the least of us. Always late to the party that’s already in full swing, uninvited yet full of their own...
““In my psychotherapy practice, I saw this play out daily. Clients spoke of loneliness, but what they really meant was a failure of reflection.”” —...
Spot the difference between: “Is this all there is?” and “You mean there’s all this?!”
““We don’t have ideas. Ideas have us.”” — Carl Jung