“I don’t know” sounds like an ending but is actually always the best place to start…
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2024
Animals don’t try to be better, don’t try to change how and what they are. That is our particular blessing and curse.
You can only do what you are moved to do.
It’s interesting to see how even spirituality, in the widest possible sense, is just as prone to ossifying dogma as anything else.
There doesn’t have to be anything more or less than this. Indeed, there never can be.
“What do we do now, now that we are happy? Samuel Beckett”
It’s impossible not to live your life. We live the only lives we can.
It’s much easier to confront and deal with a gaping stoma erupting foaming faeces than it is to confront and deal with the feral neuroses...
It doesn’t matter what anyone has said, says or will say. You and only you can recognise the nature of your mind.
2023
Our folly is to remain resolutely unsatisfied with the actual living truth, clearly and readily evident in each and every moment of our aliveness.
Despite what means we have at our disposal; science, art, religion – we get no closer to the mystery at the heart of life, the...
Imagination and creativity have the potential to both trap us and set us free in equal measure.
Accepting what life presents us with
“People do not realize just how much they are putting at risk when they don’t accept what life presents them with, the questions and tasks...
“Waking up is a relaxation into not knowing, into simply being this whole happening, just as it is. Joan Tollifson”
There is nothing mysterious about what is happening but there is only mystery about how and why.
We’re not meant to be happy any more than we’re meant to be in pain. We’re not meant to be anything in particular. We just...
The best meditation I know of is to completely surrender to whatever is happening, however it’s happening, whenever it’s happening.
“We are not required to attain anything, I say. Nothing. This is not a test. When that is seen, one can relax. Robert Saltzman”
“There are no experts in the art of living, which is an art of improvisation without certainty. We are all in this together. If there...
