A nice meditation circle this evening. A modest six attendees in contrast to the fourteen last week. It had a very intimate feel and the...
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“No one chooses what to like or dislike. All that arises preconceptually, and then we call the conscious coming to awareness of those preconceptual brain states ‘me’....
“If you’re moved by something, it doesn’t need explaining. If you’re not, no explanation will move you. — Federico Fellini”
“I think and think and think. I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. — Jonathan Safran Foer”
Finding and accepting your own mind makes clear the recognition that, not only does all seeking end, but you are home having never left.
I have no interest in theory or academia… “That’s all very well in practice but will it work in theory? — Garret FitzGerald”
“Somewhere along the way, you realize that no one will teach you how to live your own life — not your parents or your idols,...
What started off as dank and foggy has blossomed into a crisp and bright day with more than a hint of warmth to it.
There is no perfection, only completeness, which is exactly what we always are.
Home.
“Is this what you think it means to be human? How little adept we are at living! We tie ourselves up with intentions, not mindful...
When you feel you are everything there is no need to believe in anything.
Debris from the recent floodwaters caught in the branches of trees over ten feet above the river’s usual level.
The sea used to be my contemplative companion on the morning walk to work but now it’s rivers and mountains – the same ebb and...
The sun exquisitely striking the hills through the clouds this morning on my way into town.
“Both the poetic and the mythic image at once reveal and conceal. The meaning is divined rather than defined, implicit rather than explicit, suggested rather...
“It is inarguably true that I exist. That I am. The mind’s response to this fundamental fact is to miniaturize it, to make it absurd,...
“Growth and insight often arise in unplanned moments, outside the pressures of deadlines. By moving beyond the idea of time as a resource to be...
There is no inter-personal justice, no weighing of scales between two souls – only forgiveness.
A wet but fresh and alive autumnal morning. The brook running fast and clear. Everything glistening, even the rich red leaves underfoot.
