“If I am constantly on the move, tripping, going from here to there and back again, then I am in a restless state, hanging on...
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2024
The insights of so-called awakening/ enlightenment are not acquiring new information but simply recognising what we already are.
A day off today between a twelve hour shift yesterday and another one tomorrow. In my old job this would have depressed me greatly but...
“All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That’s all I can do. The rest...
Some days I am struck more forcibly than other days by just how much we unconsciously define ourselves and create identities by our preferences. What...
Dawn. Sitting still and silent in my car. The rain has abated, floods receding but the wind howls and gusts on, buffeting the car and...
So storm Darragh gave us a right old battering! Woke up this morning to the brook raging higher than previously and the ground strewn with...
“But Life doesn’t conform to concepts. It doesn’t fit into neat categories or frameworks. Life is vast, fluid, and ungraspable, always moving beyond the limits...
There is darkness inside all of us. Unrecognised and unacknowledged it festers and transforms only to emerge in disguise, often as virtue.
Hello Rat in the supermarket car park.
I rarely write about my work and I have no idea why. It seems I am simply not moved to. That said it appears, today,...
“Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.” “Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and...
It is pure fantasy to think that you could have done things differently or lived your life any other way. This dream of an imagined...
A curious state of mind today. Not melancholy but floating. Present but not present. Liminal…
“If my happiness depends on someone or something or on a particular set of circumstances, then I am one miserable dude. Happiness isn’t a thermometer....
Came across this on a building beside a river this afternoon.
There is no elephant in the room. The elephant is the room.
There is nothing wrong with mind. Mind is completely perfect in every respect except for thinking there is a separate you that possesses the mind...
“Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. Alan Watts via Tony Cartledge”
This is so beautiful… “morning no.8 She is blind but loving the sunshine. She feels it with whole her body. She is a camera in...
It is perfectly ordinary and normal that much of what we experience makes no sense. Sense is the exception rather than the rule. Indeed, the...
Probably one of my favourite music videos of all time. Joy Division’s Atmosphere. https://youtu.be/1EdUjlawLJM?feature=shared
“What if you did not separate yourself from the experience that is here now - whether that moment is a dark sky, a dark mood,...
“The price of living in a consumer culture is that we are tyrannized by things. Not just by things themselves, of course, but by our thoughts about...
Out dancing last night the DJ played Prince’s Mountains and then Miss You by The Rolling Stones. This reminded me of an interview when Prince...
Previously I posted here about my soft spot for Glen Campbell’s Wichita Lineman. On further reflection it occurred to me that one of the reasons...
A great time with my son at the match this afternoon and 3-0 win as well!
Ever so slightly obsessed with Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell at the moment. I first heard it as a little kid and it’s haunted me...
“It takes great resolve to enter into the darkness of our own chaos, to give up the familiar path and begin to trust our own...
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. — Aldous Huxley”
“True action—be it the step toward a new perspective, a tangible effort to create, or the humble choice to care—rarely claims the spotlight. — Food...
It comes as a great relief to realise that you could not have lived your life in any other way despite all the reasons and...
Beautiful cool morning. Grateful to simply be today. What a glorious start to a twelve hour shift.
I don’t read a lot of fiction but an author I had never heard of popped up in my feed today – Fleur Jaeggy. Her...
It’s easy to succumb to the soothing embrace of words and language when often we’re really falling into a trap.
After years of practice and contemplation, trials and tribulations, an eventful life with its fair share of contentment and trauma – I still can’t better...
Having ventured out towards a beautiful dawn, I arrive at work only to be shrouded in freezing fog!
A freezing frosty morning and a beautiful dawn to guide my way to work.
When it comes managing personal tasks and to-do’s the best piece of advice I ever heard came from Jason Fried of 37 Signals in the...
If you can’t integrate/ assimilate traditional ancient wisdom into the ordinary reality of your own lived experience then you’re completely missing the point.
“Knowing is new and spontaneous. Knowledge is remembered and rehearsed. One is accumulated, the other an empty space. As a window is a hole in...
“In the absence of adequate rites of passage, ad-men become the high priests of an initiation into the addictions of consumerism. Everywhere the ceremony of...
“Later on, life forces us to make one-sided differentiations. But that is why we get lost to ourselves and have to learn, again, to find...
Where is home? Here, always right here, right now. Which is, of course, everywhere we happen to be.
“…he won't get to the root of his problem, because the root of his problem is himself, and he doesn't know it. — Anon”
“If I don’t know who I am, whatever I do to make the world better will only serve to make it worse. Herein the experience...
Still, clear air outside. A dog barks. Flames rage in the wood burner. In the distance the gentle hiss of the occasional car on the...
We just happen and our conscious awareness is a helpless passenger along for the ride.
A bright, crisp and clear morning. A good day for a run.
Everything uttered is too much…
