There’s a difference between being comfortable in your own skin and being pleased with yourself. The latter are almost always never the former.
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2025
““Live your damn life.”” — Warren Ellis
““We know what we are. I’m a this. I’m a that. We just don’t know who we are. This estrangement from reality has consequences. It...
The most pertinent questions AI raises are about us. What are we?
I’m pretty sure I’ve posted this before but it bears repeating. ““Suffering doesn’t disappear from life, it disappears into life.”” — Barry Magid, Ordinary Mind...
We are not supposed to think, feel or be anything in particular. We can only be exactly what we are.
Ordinary everyday life is meditation enough if we attend to it in the moment with simplicity, an open curious mind and without taking ownership of...
As a matter of experience no beginning or end can be located. We always find ourselves in the midst of everything that is happening.
There is no effort or technique required to be completely and wholly alive. We are automatically and spontaneously totally alive at all times without even...
““We must make our experiment. We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life. And there will be error. If you...
Wisdom is recognising the difference between: “I was unhappy but now I am happy.” and “there is unhappiness and there is happiness.”
Solemnity and earnestness are the enemies of revelation, transformation, insight and wisdom.
““The ego is the workshop where the self is made.”” — Carl Jung
Experience is a spectrum not a hierarchy.
Recognising what is needed is more important than imagining you know what you want.
““When the mind recognizes itself, there is no thing to see there. It’s just wide open.”” — Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Just received my copy. Very excited to get stuck in…
““If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so… The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.”” — Alan Watts
Every word is too much and yet not enough.
Nothings needs to be done for everything to happen.