“You know that the antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest? … The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness. ― David Whyte, Crossing the Unknown Sea”
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2024
One my favourite book titles. It also happens to be a great book too.
The only possible place to get to, the only attainable perspective, the only condition one simply cannot help experiencing is the present moment whatever it...
There is nothing to be done but see ourselves clearly. With this clear recognition, what happens next is what happens next regardless of what we...
“Therefore, I do not view the self as an improvement project that begins with incompletion and evolves towards completion. The chaos does not need to...
“A man in love is unmasked. He has no preferences, makes no distinctions, acknowledges no differences, sees himself in everyone. He has, in effect, ceased...
Cold feet Warm heart Today
You are here now… https://youtu.be/V2zbpKvcLH8 [Robert Saltzman]The Ten Thousand Things
We had a power cut today so I spent the time chopping wood for the stoves. What’s the cliché? He who chops the wood warms...
“If I am constantly on the move, tripping, going from here to there and back again, then I am in a restless state, hanging on...
The insights of so-called awakening/ enlightenment are not acquiring new information but simply recognising what we already are.
A day off today between a twelve hour shift yesterday and another one tomorrow. In my old job this would have depressed me greatly but...
“All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That’s all I can do. The rest...
Some days I am struck more forcibly than other days by just how much we unconsciously define ourselves and create identities by our preferences. What...
Dawn. Sitting still and silent in my car. The rain has abated, floods receding but the wind howls and gusts on, buffeting the car and...
So storm Darragh gave us a right old battering! Woke up this morning to the brook raging higher than previously and the ground strewn with...
“But Life doesn’t conform to concepts. It doesn’t fit into neat categories or frameworks. Life is vast, fluid, and ungraspable, always moving beyond the limits...
There is darkness inside all of us. Unrecognised and unacknowledged it festers and transforms only to emerge in disguise, often as virtue.
Hello Rat in the supermarket car park.
I rarely write about my work and I have no idea why. It seems I am simply not moved to. That said it appears, today,...
