““Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it and no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.”” — John Cage
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2025
““We may prefer to do almost anything other than take in information that could save us.”” — Alain de Botton
Not a very auspicious start to my use/ involvement with Minutiae. I keep missing the notifications! I mean it kind of doesn't matter but I love...
At a certain point in meditative/ contemplative practice words and language become utterly redundant.
In the spirit of Minutiae, a random photo for the day…
Having been somewhat tentative and slow to engage with AI I have started to have a few conversations about my interest in the nature of...
““Seer and seen arise and set together.”” — John Troy Put another way, consciousness and phenomena are co-emergent.
Minutiae is a really interesting social photography project and app like nothing else I’ve ever come across. Hard to describe so I recommend just going...
Up.
Reflection/ contemplation/ meditation is always only ever about what is happening.
““Flowers fall even though we love them, and weeds grow even though we dislike them.” — Dōgen Zenji
Vibrant morning.
Not knowing anything for sure, for certain.
The first leaves sprouting on the Silver Birch.
Real Madrid vs. Arsenal tonight. Madrid looking to overturn a 0-3 deficit from the first leg. Should be a corker!Half-time update: Not a corker.
There’s no getting to the bottom of anything.
When contemplating what AI may or may not be I find it raises far more interesting questions about what we may or may not be.
What do we think we’re doing?
“"Set aside preferences, and we might notice that nothing real ever requires our expression in order to validate itself."” — Judy Cohen
““When the hero's journey ends, something real can begin.”” — Robert Saltzman, The Myth Of Sisyphus
Even if we managed to stop the bolder rolling back down the hill, if we somehow kept it at the top. Then what?
““Freedom is not found in escape but in lucidity. In seeing clearly, without illusion. In saying yes, even when the gods say no.”” — Robert...
Be the silence Be the noise Be the light Be the dark Be the stillness Be the motion Be everything As it happens However, wherever,...
There’s no greater teacher than the present moment.
If you don’t know what to do next, just wait and see what you do next.
““You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.”” — Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
““That which seems like a false step is just the next step.”” — Agnes Martin
There isn’t any more of anything, there’s just difference.
I don’t interest me. And yet I don’t bore me.
““No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.”” — Alan Watts
Too many great quotes in this piece to post so just read the whole thing – Identity Is Nothing But A Lie by Robert Saltzman.
““There can be no centre in infinity.”” — Lucretius
The view from…
Feel what you feel, don’t feel what you think.
Meaningful things Happen quietly, Without fanfare or performance, Acts away from the spotlight Of the ego or the crowd, Deeds done Doer invisible
We can’t chose what we like and dislike anymore than we can chose to beat our heart.
We are unknowably complex and sophisticated organic systems perfectly capable of running ourselves without the meddling and interference from deluded, power-crazed insecure egos.
““My thoughts are not my self but exactly like the things of the world, alive and dead. Thoughts are natural events that you do not...
““Sometimes you just don’t get to feel good about things.”” — Annie Mueller
There’s a difference between being comfortable in your own skin and being pleased with yourself. The latter are almost always never the former.
““Live your damn life.”” — Warren Ellis
““We know what we are. I’m a this. I’m a that. We just don’t know who we are. This estrangement from reality has consequences. It...
The most pertinent questions AI raises are about us. What are we?
I’m pretty sure I’ve posted this before but it bears repeating. ““Suffering doesn’t disappear from life, it disappears into life.”” — Barry Magid, Ordinary Mind...
We are not supposed to think, feel or be anything in particular. We can only be exactly what we are.
Ordinary everyday life is meditation enough if we attend to it in the moment with simplicity, an open curious mind and without taking ownership of...
As a matter of experience no beginning or end can be located. We always find ourselves in the midst of everything that is happening.
There is no effort or technique required to be completely and wholly alive. We are automatically and spontaneously totally alive at all times without even...
““We must make our experiment. We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life. And there will be error. If you...
