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We had a power cut today so I spent the time chopping wood for the stoves. What’s the cliché? He who chops the wood warms...

“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...

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”