It’s important to know where your energy is best spent. It has taken me many years, trials and tribulations to understand that mine is best...
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2026
Sunlight
I’m sitting on a sofa at work. A shard of warm sunlight is shinning across my shoulder and on to the floor through a window...
Krishnamurti was right about many things but he knew f*ck all about human psychology.
“The human mind is not primarily designed to recognize reality. It is designed to preserve psychological continuity. The priority is not truth. The priority is...
“At a certain point in life one stops saying Hi and starts saying Bye.” — Martin Amis
The morning
I’m up early as usual. My alarm is set for 6.30am but I mostly wake up before, switch the alarm off and get up. I...
“What is, is, and in this moment cannot be different. Resisting that is psychological suffering. Things are as they are. If suffering is involved, it...
Yes. “Nothing is allowed to be small anymore. Nothing is allowed to be moderate, partial, ordinary, seasonal, boring, or just good enough. Every preference must...
“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.” — George Orwell
“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.” — Toni...
A Zen monk asked a dog, “do you have Buddha nature?” The dog replied, “where’s my dinner?”
“There is no complexity in ‘what is’, but only in the many escapes that we seek.” — Krishnamurti
The more exquisitely fluent and coherent the language the greater the distance between it and what it’s trying to express.
“Why do we struggle to be superior? Why all this effort to assert oneself?” — Krishnamurti
At the moment of realisation, recognition, expression… it‘s gone.
Simply sitting Watching the world go by Coffee cooling Clouds drifting Everything happening Yet nothing done
Wood walk.
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.” — Carl Jung
