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““Here is not an ‘Either-Or’ crossover but, rather, a ‘Both-And’ revelation.”” — Dennis Gallagher
“Non-Duality. That place where we see that the One manifests as the many and the many are inseparable from the One. It is always around...
Good afternoon.
Happiness has nothing to do with pleasure.
There was a time (even before the printed word) it was thought that the written word signalled the death knell of human wisdom and culture...
Our thoughts and ideas are the least of us. Always late to the party that’s already in full swing, uninvited yet full of their own...
““In my psychotherapy practice, I saw this play out daily. Clients spoke of loneliness, but what they really meant was a failure of reflection.”” —...
Spot the difference between: “Is this all there is?” and “You mean there’s all this?!”
““We don’t have ideas. Ideas have us.”” — Carl Jung
Where do you want to be?
I work with someone who spends all of their time on holiday despite actually being on holiday for only two weeks of every year. The...
““When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.”” — Byron Katie
Distraction? What distraction?
We might say a distraction is a thing which takes our attention away from another thing. One separate thing in a world of other separate...
There’s nothing special or mysterious about the non dual perspective. What it reveals, however, is nothing but mystery.
Quality and quantity are irrelevant to meditation/ contemplation.
Mind is an open space full of everything. The view from everywhere.
How to be unhappy
1. Compare yourself to others 2. Compare the present with the past and the future 3. Believe your thoughts 4. Repeat until miserable
““I speak not of transcendence, but of what shimmers before the mind moves to name it. Not the ultimate, but the immediate. The unsponsored. The...
““The way out of our cage begins with accepting absolutely everything about ourselves and our lives.”” — Tara Brach
There is no thought, idea, concept or story that can survive the raw actuality of experience. Not even this one 😉
Self interest is a dead end.
Good morning.
““Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”” — Haruki Murakami
Good morning.
““Silence is not freedom from sounds. Silence is not freedom from thoughts. Silence is freedom from some other moment – past or future.”” — Dorothy...
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““...it becomes vividly clear that in concrete fact I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.”” — Alan...
Looking back over old journal entries from years ago I see a completely different person. Recognisable but gone. How transient and ephemeral our selves are.
Ouch
This morning I stubbed my toe. Badly. You know, the kind that hurts beyond all reason. The stubbing that convinces you the toe must be...
When I look to see where and what I am I find nothing but everything.
““The two demons are fear and desire. Now, everyone knows that demons aren’t real. That they’re imaginary. So how is it that they exist and...
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Treetops
We all take our feelings very seriously but what are they?
What stories are we all telling ourselves this morning?
After a hectic weekend at work enjoying a slightly slower start this morning with coffee and a cool breeze before my late shift tonight.
Good morning.
““I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”” — Mark Twain
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“We project our trance onto the machine and find it blinking back. This is the danger: not that machines fool us, but that we fool...
This old girl is 16 years and 3 months young. She just keeps on truckin…
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Things are finite. Being is infinite.
““Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and...
It’s fascinating to watch how quickly and automatically direct experience is transformed into a story and how rapidly that little story is then interwoven to...
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““One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not...
““Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”” — Rainer Maria Rilke
Good afternoon.
You can only wake up to your own life.
