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We don’t half make a fuss given the fact that we don’t actually experience our own death.

Do blog URLs matter?

I don’t know. It just crossed my mind when signing up for this Scribbles blog. Unlike, for instance, micro.blog where your default blog URL is...

Nothing has any more or less meaning than anything else. Everything is its own meaning in of itself, as it is.

“"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain. And so obvious and so simple and yet everybody rushes around in...

Watching me watching her.

Our dog Toast, 16 next month, always has some part of her body hanging out of her bed. This evening it’s the front end.

““The present moment is the only moment we have. If we're not in the present moment, we're not alive.”” — Charlotte ‘Joko’ Beck

“Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. — Aldous Huxley”

Only just made it in to work this morning. The combination of snow melt and overnight rain has caused widespread flooding. Some roads were only...

Melting already.

“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often are a torment for me, and I need...

“Joy at the smallest things comes to you only when you have accepted death. But if you look out greedily for all that you could...

“Thoughts arise and fall as flowers live and wilt. Stars fade over eons in the night sky and clouds pass and change. Everything is changing...

Listening to Zen teacher and psychoanalyst Barry Magid’s Ordinary Mind. Excellent so far. Within minutes I belatedly learned the difference between psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.

Experience without language. Wordless being.

Thoughts and feelings are not a problem. Believing they are is.

Really want to read this (and watch the companion documentary on Amazon). David Shields is one of my favourite writers. I quote him often.

Brilliant and beautiful. “Quit chasing it. Happiness does not like to be chased. It does admire a good heartbreak, though. A cleansing and terrifying dark...

I’ve always found this time of year rather strange. I find myself surrounded by people both off and online looking back over the previous year...

“There are two conditions for growth: quietude and stillness. To avoid growth, have a goal. Create an agenda. Make a plan. Draw up a list...

“Living by principles is not living your own life. It is easier to try to be better than you are than to be who you...

Nothing happens next, this is always it.

“It is inevitably true that life is suffering. But the reverse is also true: suffering is life. It is in the midst of suffering that...

“…reality is that which does not go away even if you don’t believe in it. — Robert Saltzman”

“From radical nonduality, you get nothing. Or put differently, you get everything, just as it is. Radical nonduality is not about improvement or progress. It...

Belief is the problem not what is believed.

“Not knowing, intimacy, mystery—all are words that convey a simple, yet profound, openness to the moment without any attempt to master, control, or understand it....

There is no stillness or silence, there is always movement and sound. There is nowhere to go. We take ourselves everywhere and find ourselves everywhere.

“There is no one to whom we are not related. Yes, the idea of me and mine is a cultural cornerstone, but like all ideas,...

“Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the shadow and the world of darkness....

“This is what Zen means by being detached – not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or...

“What is the ‘silence' that you are after? Do you hear those trucks passing by on the road and the flushing of the toilet? Do...

We truly become ourselves when we forget ourselves.