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“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...