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Thus it is that our worldview is conventional and far from complete. It is just a version of reality, a ‘way of seeing’. Nothing more. It is, in the Western case, a way of seeing that gives us enormous control over the physical world, but leaves us psychologically impoverished.
Alan Watts, Shaman
You can’t get outside yourself to define yourself. You can’t get outside of nature, because you are part of it.
Alan Watts
You can’t get outside yourself to define yourself. You can’t get outside of nature, because you are part of it.
Alan Watts
This is all there is. This moment right now. This is it. It’s all there ever is and was. This is the entire totality of my existence in this moment. The energy of it is so intense. Just ‘being’ here. Just feeling presence. There’s a wholeness an expansiveness.
Deciding not to Believe a Thought
This is all there is. This moment right now. This is it. It’s all there ever is and was. This is the entire totality of my existence in this moment. The energy of it is so intense. Just ‘being’ here. Just feeling presence. There’s a wholeness an expansiveness.
Deciding not to Believe a Thought
And how can we know the whole of which we are only a part?
Carl Jung
And how can we know the whole of which we are only a part?
Carl Jung
Our resting place, our true home is always right here, right now under all circumstances in any situation. If it’s not here, now it’s nowhere at all.
Our resting place, our true home is always right here, right now under all circumstances in any situation. If it’s not here, now it’s nowhere at all.
In practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal— quite the opposite. We’re just being with our experience, whatever it is…
Awakeness
In practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal— quite the opposite. We’re just being with our experience, whatever it is…
Awakeness
Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don’t try to figure anything out. Don’t try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.
Tilopa
Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don’t try to figure anything out. Don’t try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.
Tilopa
Your questions are unanswerable because you want to know how one ought to live.
One lives as one can.
There is no single, definite way for the individual which is prescribed for him or would be the proper one.
If that’s what you want you had best join the Catholic Church, where they tell you what’s what.
Moreover this way fits in with the average way of mankind in general.
But if you want to go your individual way, it is the way you make for yourself, which is never prescribed, which you do not know in advance, and which simply comes into being of itself when you put one foot in front of the other.
If you always do the next thing that needs to be done, you will go most safely and sure-footedly along the path prescribed by your unconscious.
Then it is naturally no help at all to speculate about how you ought to live.
And then you know, too, that you cannot know it, but quietly do the next and most necessary thing.
So long as you think you don’t yet know what this is, you still have too much money to spend in useless speculation.
But if you do with conviction the next and most necessary thing, you are always doing something meaningful and intended by fate.
Carl Jung
Your questions are unanswerable because you want to know how one ought to live.
One lives as one can.
There is no single, definite way for the individual which is prescribed for him or would be the proper one.
If that’s what you want you had best join the Catholic Church, where they tell you what’s what.
Moreover this way fits in with the average way of mankind in general.
But if you want to go your individual way, it is the way you make for yourself, which is never prescribed, which you do not know in advance, and which simply comes into being of itself when you put one foot in front of the other.
If you always do the next thing that needs to be done, you will go most safely and sure-footedly along the path prescribed by your unconscious.
Then it is naturally no help at all to speculate about how you ought to live.
And then you know, too, that you cannot know it, but quietly do the next and most necessary thing.
So long as you think you don’t yet know what this is, you still have too much money to spend in useless speculation.
But if you do with conviction the next and most necessary thing, you are always doing something meaningful and intended by fate.
Carl Jung
Not having a problem with having a problem is to be carefree.
Anon
Not being uncomfortable about being uncomfortable is comfort.
Not being afraid about being anxious is trust.
Not being ashamed about being embarrassed is self-esteem.
Your attitude to your emotional truth sets you free.
Not having a problem with having a problem is to be carefree.
Anon
Not being uncomfortable about being uncomfortable is comfort.
Not being afraid about being anxious is trust.
Not being ashamed about being embarrassed is self-esteem.
Your attitude to your emotional truth sets you free.
Here it is right now. Everything as it is. Start thinking about it and you miss it. Try and grasp it and it vanishes.