Back from India there is so much to say that I am struck mute with the task of doing it justice.
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Watching Industry Season 4. Like Succession, another great show about awful people.
“For a time, words may encourage and inspire, but if you cling too long to a teaching, any teaching, it will blind you to your...
You can be but not know or know but not be. Not both.
Life is life. Stories are stories. The degree to which we confuse and conflate the two is a measure of our contentedness or lack of...
Watched There Will Be Blood again on the plane 🎬 One of my favourite Paul Thomas Anderson films.
The specific qualities of any phenomena pale beside the fact that anything is happening at all.
Maturity, at any age, is nothing more than realising that both you and life are not what you thought they were and then accepting them...
So back from India, mind duly blown 🤯 in the best possible way!
Good evening.
There comes a time when the pointing stops and you simply find you are what was pointed to.
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Packing for India.I’ll take that 😊
“When attention settles back into ordinary experience without trying to improve it, something lively resumes on its own. Curiosity returns. Interest broadens. The world regains...
“Nationalism, at its root, is a longing for belonging, for being part of something greater than oneself. Fascism exploits this longing, offering the illusion of...
“Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous "I don’t know.”” — Wisława Szymborska
How insidious and mercantile the metaphor of ‘pain being the price paid for love’. Love and pain are already complete. Nothing has to be lost...
“The most dangerous systems are not those that lie — but those that no longer need the truth at all.” — The Virginia Truth
“Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there.” — Aldous Huxley
“In the beginning we consult the great traditions to see if we have got it right. At a certain point we consult the great traditions...
