Our consciousness doesn’t choose or do a goddamned thing. All that important stuff is left to our great, unknowable unconscious. Our consciousness takes credit but...
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Hope is fear in disguise.
“Putting wings on a caterpillar does not make it a butterfly… Shiv Sengupta” Shiv is a lone but wise voice in the so-called spiritual industry....
Everything is always it and it is always different. Whenever I hear the phrases like ‘original mind’, ‘ground of being’ and other such terms, they...
All life is luck.
Life can break us but in doing so it makes us.
“Be knowingly silent as often as you can and you will no longer be a prey to the desire to be this or that. You...
“To help others, first realize that there are no others. That we are one, not two, three or a thousand… The power of one”
There’s no escape yet we’re completely free.
“You can’t get into it, you can’t get out of it. You are it. — John Astin”
Imagine a tree thinking it was separate from the rest of the universe. The ensuing confusion would be absurdly funny. Sound familiar? Trees are trees...
They do the best coffee and cakes.
“The whole social structure—which is to be competitive, aggressive, comparing oneself with another, accepting an ideology, a belief, and so on—is based on conflict, not...
A nice 5k run this morning in beautiful autumn sunshine. More than a hint of warmth in the sun and an invigorating freshness to the...
Exhausted at the end of another twelve hour shift. Exhausted but still somehow feeling very alive, energised, fulfilled and rewarded. It’s at moments like this...
We no more consciously know what we’re going to say or do next than we beat our heart, digest our food or grow our hair.
This ‘me’ that is aware ain’t doing shit but catching up on action already set it play. Our unconscious is us, what we are, yet...
