A year ago today… “Can’t fault her commitment to keeping the door open rather than relaxing in her bed.”
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2026
“The most confronting truth is this: Clarity is not born from deeper interpretation. It is born from restraint. From choosing not to fill every space...
Good afternoon.
There is no value in trying to transform your experience into something else, better or worse; instead, simply accept its immediate, raw sensations exactly as...
There is a there there, but when you’re there, there’s nothing there.
Morning, Agnes Martin
Too Lazy To Be Ambitious
“Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days' worth of rice in my bag; a bundle of twigs...
Watched and very much enjoyed Sister Midnight 🎬
Good afternoon.
“If I have to suffer, then let it be from my reality. A neurosis is a much greater curse! In general, a neurosis is a...
Saw Hamnet last night. Wow. Wow. Wow. Beautiful. How art can transform the particular woes of life into moments of universal connection.
“Loneliness, then, is the price of awakeness. It’s what we face when we stop clutching second-hand notions—religion, nationalism, spiritual slogans, gender banners, racial labels—and instead...
“I don’t know” sounds like an ending but is actually always the best place to start...
Damn fine cup of coffee.
“Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.” — Alan Watts
Good morning.
Good afternoon.
“The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there’s no ground.” — Chögyam...
More often than not words get in the way of realisation/ recognition.
Jung couldn’t have put it better. “When awareness collapses, behavior becomes compulsive. When presence is lost, people become possessed by their own unresolved energy.” —...
Good night.
Good evening.
“Once the sense of self is understood as a functional stabilization rather than a mistake, the whole project of opposing it collapses. There’s nothing to...
Went to a second screening of Mother Vera plus a Q&A afterwards with one of the makers. Wonderful movie and incredible behind the scenes insights.
Words, language - always too much yet never enough.
Good morning.
Ordered Kingdom Come by J. G. Ballard to take away at the end of this month. Also intending to finally read Ballard’s Atrocity Exhibition too.
Good evening.
Good morning.
“Attainment means something very specific in Zen. It does not mean acquiring a belief or arriving at a philosophical position. It means direct realization. It...
“We speak as if awareness were an agent; the self were an inner object; and experience were something that requires management. Presence is treated as...
Thoughts and feelings are not a problem. Believing them is.
“…what you want is comfort, permanency, a state of mind that will never be disturbed, which you call peace. And you will find what you...
Good morning.
“wake up at 4am to Get Ahead. ahead of what. ahead of whom. They will not say. just ahead. always ahead. never arriving.” — Daojoan
“The UK is a bizarre country where its seen as just fine & normal for people to sleep in tents in the freezing cold. Temperatures...
— Graeber.social
“The history of tech is very much the history of politics as we go forward.” — Dave Winer
“Whatever I call “me” is just part of the show. Whatever I call “self” is a useful tool, not a tyrant. And whatever I’m trying...
The human organism can take as much as it can take. And that is unknowable. That ignorance feels like infinite capacity and that sense remains...
2025
Our folly is to remain resolutely unsatisfied with the actual living truth, clearly and readily evident in each and every moment of our aliveness.
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” — Rudyard Kipling via Jose
There is absolutely no requirement to watch, listen or read everything.
Floating through the no man’s land between Christmas and New Year. Up to the Smoke tomorrow to see old friends. Back to work New Year’s...
Reading The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton 📚
Fear of the dark, fear of the unknown, fear of yourself.
We can only feel what matters not understand it.
