For me Care work is incredibly simple. It may be hard, tiring, challenging and often exhausting but above all it is profoundly uncomplicated. One human...
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The question ‘what is this?’ needs no answer.
Listen to your quietest voice.
We spend most of our days overlooking what we are. Contemplation and/ or meditation is simply failing to overlook yourself.
Don’t go looking, you already have what you need.
“"Not knowing is most intimate."” — Dizang
““Go no further, but rest in this naked, stark, elemental awareness that you are as you are.”” — Anonymous, The Book of Privy Counseling
Literally chopping wood and carrying water (well, coffee) today 🤣
““Both ruin and recovery are from within.”” — Epictetus
I find it odd that the word ‘contemplative’ seems to be associated with western Christian spiritual practice while ‘meditative’ is associated with eastern practices. For...
““The ego wants explanation always in order to assert its existence.”” — Carl Jung
““Truth is not certainty.”” — Karl Popper
The child’s repetitive question of ‘why?’ in response to all answers and explanations is entirely appropriate.
““…experience is a form of exploration.” ” — Aldous Huxley
We are products of all time as well as our own time.
Choice and chance are the same thing.
Repetition is only an approximation of what came before.
AI creates the illusion of intelligence by the exquisitely powerful expression and superhuman manipulation of language. It delivers what looks like intelligence but is actually...
The truth of the moment can arise at any time, in any form, without warning, regardless of need or want.