““When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”” — John Muir: Nature Writings
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2025
““I am not a word herd.”” — Know thyself
Boredom is wanting something that isn't there. Contentment is having everything when nothing is there.
Simply being alive is all the meaning we need, yet evidently not all the meaning we want.
The vast majority of what we are and have learned is not present in any given moment.
We can never know anyone else’s experience let alone our own.
We fool ourselves if we believe we are ever not alone.
It’s not that we don’t know how to live, it’s that society demands we live like or as other people.
Animals that lose a limb just get on with it.
““Nature's out of line. Just right. You too.”” — Randomly right, Jason Fried
I’ve never liked the word ‘retreat’ as it is used in the meditative, contemplative and so-called spiritual circles. I always think: ‘where are you retreating...
Our immediate lived experience flows and changes so comprehensively that all (these) words are just echos pointing at ghosts.
Watching my mind tenaciously hang on to two thoughts and effortlessly turn them into problems. But are they problems right now? No. Potentially at some...
It would seem foolish to ask ‘where are we now?’ in the midst of ever shifting sands.
Feelings are to be felt fully and unconditionally and most importantly allowed to exhaust themselves. Feelings are not to be held onto, hidden behind, identified...
We all think we understand why things do or don’t happen, but do we? How could our tiny little slits of limited perception possibly get...
The profound relief when you realise, not only that there’s nothing to do, but that there’s nothing you can do even if you wanted to....
Nothing is ever really explained nor will anything ever be.
