““My job is not to run around doing things. I am a human being, not a human doing.”” — Paradigm shift

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Thinking is great fun. Watching thoughts pop up out of nowhere and then disappear again just as mysteriously. Hopping on a thought train and riding...
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““I have nothing when I realize that nothing is mine. That I’m briefly a steward. A caretaker. I am nothing when I realize that as...
““Light only has meaning when it illuminates something dark and enlightenment is no good unless it helps to recognize darkness.”” — Carl Jung
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There is no next, this is always it
““Any idea we have right here and now of what next looks like, is a painting made by our mind, and holds no reality. There...
Looking forward to this. Shifty, the new film/ series from Adam Curtis. UK only I fear 😕

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““When we turn 40 we stop saying ‘hi’ and start saying ‘bye’.” — Martin Amis
The point of utopias and dystopias is that we end up somewhere in the middle. What we fail to recognise is that we have to...
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We cannot rid ourselves of anything that happens because we are everything that happens.
““The observer is the observed and therein lies sanity, the whole.”” — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The shift from a busy, confused and overwhelmed mind to that of open, clear, spaciousness is counterintuitively slight but experientially enormous.
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““The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.”” — Tara Brach
Being alive is the only adventure.
At meditation this evening I felt an exquisite intensity of the moment – of everything happening all at once.