Probably the most underrated feeling or state of mind that contributes subtlety but most powerfully to mental health and contentment is gratitude. There is always something to be grateful for. Even if it’s for something you don’t have, like chronic pain for instance. A bad day can always be worse.

Morning

The fire is slowly dying for the night…

So here we go with micro.blog… Haven’t the faintest how I’ll use it or if I even will. First impressions seem to indicate that it lends itself to informal, quick content but we’ll see I guess…

We become what we give our attention to.

Let the nettle sting be. Who are we to claim it as ours?

When we truly lose the overbearing sense of a self, what is left naturally inclines towards others.

When we say we can’t take anymore what we’re really saying is we don’t want anymore.

Don’t wait to be taught. Let your own intuition and insights guide you.

Words and images have meaning in contrast to reality which simply is meaning.

The real benefits of contemplative inquiry appear when we let go of acquiring any.

It’s the holding on that hurts, not the letting go.

Beware spiritual materialism. The subtle, seductive tendency to turn the formless, not only into form, but to elevate and separate that form above and from other forms.

It is what we do when we don’t know, don’t understand what we are doing.

We deceive ourselves by thinking it can’t be this obvious, this simple, this effortless. It is our thoughts, not our raw awareness, that create confusion, complexity and fantasies of difficulty and expectation. The delusion that this can’t be it when in reality, it always is.

The eternal unfolding of the infinite everything includes the arising of the futile attempts to describe it. A ruler trying to measure itself.

Can we be still and attend to this open awareness without describing or narrating?

We don’t experience things in the present. We are experience and presence simultaneously without separation.

When we truly and honestly inquire into the present moment with open awareness, without concepts or definitions, we paradoxically find the inseparability of emptiness and abundance inextricably interwoven, undeniably present yet undefinable.