Words, language - always too much yet never enough.
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2026
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.
