““My job is not to run around doing things. I am a human being, not a human doing.”” — Paradigm shift
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2025
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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.
““When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”” — John Muir
““Different strokes for different folks or for different moments. One moment you need Zen. The next moment you need Advaita. Then maybe you suddenly find...
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Things go away. Everything is always here.
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Ever tried looking for yourself and not come up with either thoughts, ideas, stories, memories or fantasies? 🤔 😳
Nothing has to happen yet everything does.
Recognising the eternal now is exquisitely palpable yet utterly ungraspable. Reality is fully complete in each moment and yet endlessly generative…
““Notice — what happens when the wordless meets the listening. This listening is without a listener. I have no words — listen.”” — Andō
Even in contemplative/ meditative spheres there is a tendency to fetishise certain conditions, like silence and stillness, over others. The raw actuality of unconditional being/...
Whatever progress may or may not be, it is only made when one drops the idea of making any.
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““The mark of the moderate man, according to the Tao, is that he has no ideas about himself. None. Nada. In him is the recognition...
You can’t do what is already being done. You can’t become what you already are. You can’t allow what is already present.
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Your experience, however it is manifesting, is always the complete, whole aliveness of being you imagine you are seeking. If you find yourself looking or...
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Spiritual/ meditative/ contemplative insights are not reserved for sacred texts, ancient traditions, gurus or teachers. They need not come from anywhere or anyone in particular.
The presence or not of suffering is beside the larger point that there is anything to experience at all.
What is lost in the individual tends to be society’s gain and vice versa.
Everything, including you, is just happening without any effort whatsoever.
There are no distractions. Only a seamless continuum of experience.
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““In my estimation, the wisest among us are those who live without answers to ultimate questions, understanding that each moment is sufficient unto itself.”” —...
There’s what you should do, what you shouldn’t do and what you’re going to do anyway.
Body feeling battered this morning so attempting to take it easy today before work tomorrow.
Currently.
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Challenging but amazing yoga session this morning and then six hours hacking and wrestling the garden into shape. Exhausted but invigorated.
