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Only just made it in to work this morning. The combination of snow melt and overnight rain has caused widespread flooding. Some roads were only...

Melting already.

“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often are a torment for me, and I need...

“Joy at the smallest things comes to you only when you have accepted death. But if you look out greedily for all that you could...

“Thoughts arise and fall as flowers live and wilt. Stars fade over eons in the night sky and clouds pass and change. Everything is changing...

Listening to Zen teacher and psychoanalyst Barry Magid’s Ordinary Mind. Excellent so far. Within minutes I belatedly learned the difference between psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.

Experience without language. Wordless being.

Thoughts and feelings are not a problem. Believing they are is.

Really want to read this (and watch the companion documentary on Amazon). David Shields is one of my favourite writers. I quote him often.

Brilliant and beautiful. “Quit chasing it. Happiness does not like to be chased. It does admire a good heartbreak, though. A cleansing and terrifying dark...

I’ve always found this time of year rather strange. I find myself surrounded by people both off and online looking back over the previous year...