““I suppose that when it comes down to it, what I am trying to say is that the path of inward solitude, or whatever it...
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What matters? Different things at different times. Answers come and answers go revealing that there are no answers and eventually the question simply dissolves leaving,...
1. Recognition 2. Acceptance 3. Gratitude
Direct experiencing – that which requires no learning or belief, meaning or reason. Everything we feel, taste , see, hear or think requires no understanding...
A simple, gentle contemplation on my drive to work at the hospital this morning. A sense of the ‘little me’ falling away to reveal the...
““Don’t try to create and analyse at the same time, they’re different processes.”” — Corita Kent
““Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.”” — Mary...
The glory of a beautiful Spring day would not exist if not for all the bleak, grey winter ones that preceded it.
Investigate, question, examine, interrogate anything for long enough and sooner or later it disappears.
Everything is always it. Illusions, delusions, fantasies, hallucinations, confusion… Everything is included, nothing left out.
I don’t want to do anything ‘extra’, simply being here is more than enough.
There’s nothing to find because everything is here. There’s nothing to get because you’ve already got it.
The distinctions made between art/ language and life/ reality are entirely arbitrary.
““6.44: It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists at all.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
The most important thing is to find your own way, the right way for you, the way that works. There’s no point, say, in sitting...
““Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up...
““The self is nothing but thought.”” — Judy Cohen
Nothing happens next. This is it.
I seem to be doing a lot of questioning, doubting. What is not in doubt, what resists all questioning is this present moment in all...
““…you can’t have it all but there is this.”” — Barbara Ras