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We have within us the dual ability to be our own worst enemy as well as our own best friend. Looking back I spent far...

““To directly recognise how consciousness is in each moment, prior to any identification with thought, is the most important thing I've ever learned.”” — Sam...

I consider myself extraordinarily lucky to have grown up in a kind of enforced but benign solitude, being an only child and living in a...

Imaginings can always be lost. Reality never goes away.

I listened to an inadvertently funny Wisdom of the Masters podcast episode on my drive to work this morning. It was a reading of Dzogchen...

Such a beautiful drive to work this morning. Clear blue sky, crisp freezing air, the massive yellow orb of the sun just creeping up over...

Really looking forward to seeing All We Imagine As Light this Friday at the Borderlines film festival. So many good films showing but just not...

““Reality does not need to be solved. It does not require a conclusion. The mind may demand answers, but life itself moves effortlessly without them....

Whenever allusions are made to some sort of fundamental ground, source, bedrock, original anything, basis, essence/ essentialism etc. they simply don’t ring true. My feeling...

““Do not make being quiet into a task to be performed. Relax. There is nothing to practice.”” — Nisargadatta Maharaj

A couple of passages, first from Meister Eckhart and then Emma Jung’s reflections upon it. Purely for my own purposes I have replaced the word...

I’ll take as many of these freezing, clear dawns as the universe can give.

““…there's an increasing and deepening and wonderful sense that growth towards truly appreciating the actual nature of what gets called spiritual involves an ever-fuller, ever-clearer...

Home from work. Position assumed.

In answer to my own question. No, blog URL/ domains do not matter, to me at least. I've pondered this on and off over the...

Despite having a far more equanamous relationship with the weather these days I can't help but feel the lift that comes with lighter mornings and...

““Our urges, impulses, abilities, inabilities, talents, interests and actions emerge unbidden from the whole universe. No wave can go in a direction other than the...

““It is in our nature, it seems, to try to possess for ourselves things that are received by gift alone. In our fear of losing...