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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

Where do you want to be?

I work with someone who spends all of their time on holiday despite actually being on holiday for only two weeks of every year. The...

““When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.”” — Byron Katie

Distraction? What distraction?

We might say a distraction is a thing which takes our attention away from another thing. One separate thing in a world of other separate...

There’s nothing special or mysterious about the non dual perspective. What it reveals, however, is nothing but mystery.

Quality and quantity are irrelevant to meditation/ contemplation.

Mind is an open space full of everything. The view from everywhere.

How to be unhappy

1. Compare yourself to others 2. Compare the present with the past and the future 3. Believe your thoughts 4. Repeat until miserable

““I speak not of transcendence, but of what shimmers before the mind moves to name it. Not the ultimate, but the immediate. The unsponsored. The...

““The way out of our cage begins with accepting absolutely everything about ourselves and our lives.”” — Tara Brach

There is no thought, idea, concept or story that can survive the raw actuality of experience. Not even this one 😉

Self interest is a dead end.

Good morning.

““Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”” — Haruki Murakami

Good morning.