We fool ourselves if we believe we are ever not alone.
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It’s not that we don’t know how to live, it’s that society demands we live like or as other people.
Animals that lose a limb just get on with it.
““Nature's out of line. Just right. You too.”” — Randomly right, Jason Fried
I’ve never liked the word ‘retreat’ as it is used in the meditative, contemplative and so-called spiritual circles. I always think: ‘where are you retreating...
Our immediate lived experience flows and changes so comprehensively that all (these) words are just echos pointing at ghosts.
Watching my mind tenaciously hang on to two thoughts and effortlessly turn them into problems. But are they problems right now? No. Potentially at some...
It would seem foolish to ask ‘where are we now?’ in the midst of ever shifting sands.
Feelings are to be felt fully and unconditionally and most importantly allowed to exhaust themselves. Feelings are not to be held onto, hidden behind, identified...
We all think we understand why things do or don’t happen, but do we? How could our tiny little slits of limited perception possibly get...
The profound relief when you realise, not only that there’s nothing to do, but that there’s nothing you can do even if you wanted to....
Nothing is ever really explained nor will anything ever be.
Let no idea take you hostage lest you develop Stockholm syndrome to an ideology.
Meditation reveals nothing about your mind that life doesn't.
It is both a great relief and also a source of boundless capacity, to look for oneself and find no one at the wheel. The...
Invariably we find everything we need if we let go of wanting to find anything in particular.
Failure? How can we possibly fail at living, of simply being this aliveness that we are. It just happens automatically with no assistance or any...
The doorway is through the everyday crap of life. Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, whatever you’re thinking and feeling, start there and nowhere else.