Good morning.
Thinking is great fun.
Watching thoughts pop up out of nowhere and then disappear again just as mysteriously.
Hopping on a thought train and riding it to who knows where. All very entertaining.
The trouble begins when you start holding on to them and taking them personally. Identifying with them and believing them to be true.
Good morning.
“Light only has meaning when it illuminates something dark and enlightenment is no good unless it helps to recognize darkness.”
— Carl Jung
Good afternoon.
“Any idea we have right here and now of what next looks like, is a painting made by our mind, and holds no reality. There is only this, the eternal, ever present here and now, constantly unfolding.”
Good morning.
“When we turn 40 we stop saying ‘hi’ and start saying ‘bye’.
— Martin Amis
The point of utopias and dystopias is that we end up somewhere in the middle. What we fail to recognise is that we have to deal with aspects of both in an ongoing and perpetual negotiation that never ends. Just like ourselves, society and culture never arrive.
Good afternoon.
We cannot rid ourselves of anything that happens because we are everything that happens.
Perhaps the greatest piece of advice ever, from Carl Jung, of course 😉
“The observer is the observed and therein lies sanity, the whole.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The shift from a busy, confused and overwhelmed mind to that of open, clear, spaciousness is counterintuitively slight but experientially enormous.
Good morning.
“The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.”
— Tara Brach
Being alive is the only adventure.
At meditation this evening I felt an exquisite intensity of the moment – of everything happening all at once.