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2025
Humanity’s single greatest triumph and folly is our ability to make stuff up.
The irrational is where it’s at.
““As something, I am merely that thing. As no-thing, I am all things.”” — Douglas Harding
The paralysing tyranny of ‘should’...
How much can we actually know, as a matter of direct experience, and not indirect information?
““I'm sitting here looking at the mushrooms coming up through the rotting leaves, and thinking about how much grief and loss are required for growth...
You know it’s right when you can’t explain it. The truth lies beyond words.
Every moment of existence has value. It all counts. You can’t edit life. You’re either all in or all out.
““Only the human species is afflicted with the idea that just being alive is not enough, and that enlightenment is required, in addition.” — Judy...
Never mind the specific latest apparent technological and political threat, the greatest problem we face, as has always been the case, is ourselves.
It interests me that I seem to have listened and taken some heed of the voice inside me that directed me towards volunteering and ultimately...
““Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.”” — Anthony De Mello
““It is by no means certain that the man with good intentions is under all circumstances a good man. If he is not, then his...
““When a man lacks self-knowledge, he can do the most astonishing or terrible things without calling himself to account and without ever suspecting what he...
Understanding who one is has nothing to do with identity or images of selfhood. Knowing who you are means accepting your wholeness, embracing every aspect...
““If I know what I shall find, I do not want to find it. Uncertainty is the salt of life.”” — Erwin Chargaff
The infinite variation and uniqueness of minds ensures there is no single, common experience of any sort. We are deluded by the similarities and remain...
““We hear men say they are really motivated. Which is, of course, their misfortune. Where peace, truth, love and beauty are concerned, no effort is...