Our anniversary tomorrow. 25 years together, 21 years married and a 22 year old son. It’s been a helluva ride! Highs and lows and everything in between but wouldn’t change a single second. ❤️😀
dusk no.2
(https://mastodonapp.uk/@BuddhismNow/115338062632030653) by @BuddhismNow@mastodonapp.uk
“Often people say they are meditating, but what they are really doing is thinking of nothing, and the mind is completely dull. I don’t think that is right meditation. It’s just increasing the dullness of the mind.”
Concepts and uses of power differ when one begins with an individual versus a relational concept of self.
— Paula Arai, Women and Dogen: Rituals Actualizing Empowerment and Healing via Shundo David Haye
I think there are probably a lot of people, me included, that would agree with Euan here.
Apple are just another big tech company now and equally compromised.
I’ve posted this before somewhere but it bears repeating every now and then…
The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
— George Bernard Shaw
So with any luck and a following wind, in a day or so, I should have successfully migrated my Mastodon account away from mindly.social to here at micro.blog 🤞
“The police don’t spend their time fighting violent criminals. Instead, they enforce administrative regulations & endless rules. Rather than protecting us against violence they bring the threat of violence to situations where it’d never occurred otherwise. Most incidents of domestic violence, a drunken brawl, or gang fights, they don’t get involved however try driving down the street with no license plates: how long it’ll be before you are surrounded by people with weapons.”
— David Graeber
The more one tries to simplify one’s online presence the more complicated it gets! 😂
by @jsonbecker
The Confrontation Machine: json.blog
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
— Alan Watts
by @birming
“They find what’s missing, because they’re not searching.” robertbirming.com
We are free to be whatever we are when we don’t know whatever we are.
What is the purpose of labelling people as either this or that type of person?
Watched: Perfect Days 🍿 Love, love, love this movie! Wim Wenders very much back on form.
The truly virtuous rarely advertise it—their good deeds go unnoticed, often even to themselves. Those who announce their goodness rarely live up to their own billing.
You can find out all you need to know about someone by how they behave when no one is looking and that includes oneself.