It comes as a great relief to realise that you could not have lived your life in any other way despite all the reasons and...
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2024
Beautiful cool morning. Grateful to simply be today. What a glorious start to a twelve hour shift.
I don’t read a lot of fiction but an author I had never heard of popped up in my feed today – Fleur Jaeggy. Her...
It’s easy to succumb to the soothing embrace of words and language when often we’re really falling into a trap.
After years of practice and contemplation, trials and tribulations, an eventful life with its fair share of contentment and trauma – I still can’t better...
Having ventured out towards a beautiful dawn, I arrive at work only to be shrouded in freezing fog!
A freezing frosty morning and a beautiful dawn to guide my way to work.
When it comes managing personal tasks and to-do’s the best piece of advice I ever heard came from Jason Fried of 37 Signals in the...
If you can’t integrate/ assimilate traditional ancient wisdom into the ordinary reality of your own lived experience then you’re completely missing the point.
“Knowing is new and spontaneous. Knowledge is remembered and rehearsed. One is accumulated, the other an empty space. As a window is a hole in...
“In the absence of adequate rites of passage, ad-men become the high priests of an initiation into the addictions of consumerism. Everywhere the ceremony of...
“Later on, life forces us to make one-sided differentiations. But that is why we get lost to ourselves and have to learn, again, to find...
Where is home? Here, always right here, right now. Which is, of course, everywhere we happen to be.
“…he won't get to the root of his problem, because the root of his problem is himself, and he doesn't know it. — Anon”
“If I don’t know who I am, whatever I do to make the world better will only serve to make it worse. Herein the experience...
Still, clear air outside. A dog barks. Flames rage in the wood burner. In the distance the gentle hiss of the occasional car on the...
We just happen and our conscious awareness is a helpless passenger along for the ride.
A bright, crisp and clear morning. A good day for a run.
Everything uttered is too much…
“There is only one way and that is your way; there is only one salvation and that is your salvation. Why are you looking around...
