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More and more I seem to find the world of ordinary everyday things more interesting, appealing and fulfilling than anything art, music or literature etc. may conjure up. The world, as it is, is more than enough.
Confusion is a state that can only be brought about by thinking and language.
One always dies too soon — or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
Jean Paul Sartre
The manner in which you relate to suffering directly influences whether you will perpetuate more suffering in yourself and the world, or whether you will mitigate it.
Shiv Sengupta
Dialogue Between the Seeker and Life
Seeker: I want to be more open.
Life: I AM pure openness.Seeker: I want to become more present.
Life: I AM ever-present.Seeker: I want to feel move alive.
Life: I AM Life!Seeker: I want to be more at ease
Life: I AM completely at ease because there is nothing outside of me.Seeker: I want to live more in the here and now.
Life: I AM the here and now.Seeker: I want to be more aware.
Life: I AM always aware.Seeker: I want to be more accepting.
Life: My nature is to allow everything that appears because I AM everything that appears.Seeker: I want to realize that I am not separate from Reality/God/The Ground of Being.
Life: In me, there is no separation anywhere to be found.
There is never nothing/ no things – there is always everything.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
Andy Warhol
I hated being depressed, but it was in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
Andrew Solomon
The unconscious on one side is nothing but nature, and on the other hand it is the overcoming of nature; it is yea and nay in itself, two things in one. So we shall never understand what the unconscious is, as we shall never understand what the world is, because it is and it is not.
Carl Jung
There is a there, there. But when you’re there, there’s nothing there.
Wittgenstein’s assertion that:
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof must one be silent.
is about as Zen as it gets.
Language is perhaps one of the most exquisite yet clumsiest of human flowerings. It can make a genius and a fool of the same person.
Meaning is contingent, it is situational, it is not intrinsic. All the infinite diversity of phenomena is the infinite diversity of experience. If you understand this you free yourself from becoming a slave to materialism.
James Low
Things are finite. Being is infinite.
Any mood, sense or feeling that this isn’t it is just as much it as any mood, sense or feeling that this is it.
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz
Recognition, acceptance, gratitude, wholeness, completion, aliveness, simply being etc… are not solutions to problems, answers to questions or inoculations from pain and/ or suffering. They are simply what happens involuntarily, what you are spontaneously when you cease to torture yourself with dreams of ‘awakening’ or ‘enlightenment’ or any other curative fantasy.