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I didn’t do anything to find myself here and now.
Thinking is something the universe is doing in the form of human beings. Like everything else, it is an activity of the whole, inseparable from everything it apparently is not.
Joan Tollifson
Seer and seen arise and set together.
John Troy
If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
If we attend closely and carefully to what is undeniable, paradoxically it reveals that everything is unknowable.
Perhaps our refusal to face reality is the only ill we suffer from, and all the rest is just illusion and delusion.
Henry Miller – Stand Still Like The Hummingbird
…there has to be suffering,
Andrei Tarkovsky – Instant Light
because it’s through suffering,
in the struggle between good and evil,
that the spirit is forged.
Again and again man correlates himself with the world, racked with longing to acquire, and become one with, the ideal which lies outside himself, which he apprehends as some kind of intuitively sensed first principle. The unattainability of that becoming one, the inadequacy of his own ‘I’, is the perpetual source of man’s dissatisfaction and pain.
Andrei Tarkovsky – Instant Light
The best teacher is the present moment – whatever, however it is.
Stumbled across this wonderful book of essays and stories while browsing in my favourite second hand bookshop today.
I was sold on the title alone and it hasn’t disappointed.
It is said that the human animal’s most significant aim is to find and secure meaning. What if meaning were our Achilles heel, our blind spot, our surest poison?
Hope is just fear in disguise. To live without hope is to live without fear.
Perhaps the fate of the human race was secured by the evolution of the individual ego self. In achieving self reflection the human animal’s attention was captured and then lost to meaning.
Feel what you feel, just don’t feel what you think.
Don't worry about getting in touch with your feelings they will get in touch with you.
Anon/ unknown
There is nothing of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.
D. H. Laurence
At a certain point the conceptual demarcations of consciousness/ awareness, phenomena, mind, reality, self, world, inside, outside etc. all disappear or dissolve leaving a wholeness or oneness of unseparated, indivisible experience.
We are unknowably complex and sophisticated organic systems perfectly capable of running ourselves without meddling and interference from deluded, power-crazed insecure egos.