“Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.” “Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and...
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It is pure fantasy to think that you could have done things differently or lived your life any other way. This dream of an imagined...
A curious state of mind today. Not melancholy but floating. Present but not present. Liminal…
“If my happiness depends on someone or something or on a particular set of circumstances, then I am one miserable dude. Happiness isn’t a thermometer....
Came across this on a building beside a river this afternoon.
There is no elephant in the room. The elephant is the room.
There is nothing wrong with mind. Mind is completely perfect in every respect except for thinking there is a separate you that possesses the mind...
“Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. Alan Watts via Tony Cartledge”
This is so beautiful… “morning no.8 She is blind but loving the sunshine. She feels it with whole her body. She is a camera in...
It is perfectly ordinary and normal that much of what we experience makes no sense. Sense is the exception rather than the rule. Indeed, the...
Probably one of my favourite music videos of all time. Joy Division’s Atmosphere. https://youtu.be/1EdUjlawLJM?feature=shared
“What if you did not separate yourself from the experience that is here now - whether that moment is a dark sky, a dark mood,...
“The price of living in a consumer culture is that we are tyrannized by things. Not just by things themselves, of course, but by our thoughts about...
Out dancing last night the DJ played Prince’s Mountains and then Miss You by The Rolling Stones. This reminded me of an interview when Prince...
Previously I posted here about my soft spot for Glen Campbell’s Wichita Lineman. On further reflection it occurred to me that one of the reasons...
A great time with my son at the match this afternoon and 3-0 win as well!
Ever so slightly obsessed with Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell at the moment. I first heard it as a little kid and it’s haunted me...
“It takes great resolve to enter into the darkness of our own chaos, to give up the familiar path and begin to trust our own...
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. — Aldous Huxley”
“True action—be it the step toward a new perspective, a tangible effort to create, or the humble choice to care—rarely claims the spotlight. — Food...
