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“Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be.” — Carl Jung

“People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It...

So Toast has been prescribed some additional strong painkillers by the vet for her arthritis flare up. We’ll see how things go but it’s only...

“Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it.” — Carl Jung

Just back from the first run in what seems like weeks but is probably only a few days. Bad weather and ill health stretch time....

I do not know what this is nor can I say what this is so I simply leave it as it is.

“To understand something, we must approach it without any sense of condemnation.” — Krishnamurti

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” — Blaise Pascal

I haven’t been to look at the river but the brook at the side of the house is now a noisy, raging torrent.

Our individual identity is the least of us.

The levels of the river and brook are rising quickly and there’s another 12-15 hrs of this rain to come…

“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 per cent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn't one.” — Wei Wu...

Here comes the rain.

At first we think we need to add something, then we think we have to subtract something and belatedly we realise we don’t need to...

Very soggy drive to work this morning. Minor localised flooding has begun. There’ll be some respite as it’s not raining tomorrow but there’s 24 hours...

Watched: Trespasses 📺 Excellent. A different perspective on The Troubles and Gillian Anderson is superb.

It is said that AI doesn’t know what it’s doing or how it’s doing it. I would suggest that neither do we.