Get out of your own way and let yourself unfold…
“Where I am, I don’t know, I’ll never know, in the silence you don’t know, you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.”
— Samuel Beckett , The Unnamable
Looking forward to getting back to the meditation group tomorrow. A series of consecutive late shifts conspired to keep me away recently so it will be nice to just ‘sit’ again.
“No, it isn’t. No combination of words can be a fact because words are not facts and facts are not words. This revolts the word-addicted mind. Oh, well.
Hamlet (wearily) to Polonius when asked what he is reading: “Words, words, words.” Nothing real.”
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
— George Bernard Shaw
I don’t know if this makes any sense but, ‘react’ and ‘respond’ are not synonymous.
For me a reaction is something instantaneous and conditioned, whereas a response is slower and considered.
The former is a basic, unnuanced form of expression whereas the latter allows for all the subtleties of respectful communication.
Each have their place but I think we get ourselves into all sorts of avoidable conflict by thinking we’re responding when we’re actually reacting.
There’s no cure for being human.
Wherever we go, whatever we do we always take ourselves with us.
Sometimes there’s only one thing that matters.
And let’s not forget Toast in black and white…
Some old black and white photos…
“To remain still, to turn from knowing to simple awareness – without choosing, without direction, in open unknowing – really, that is all that is needed. It is so simple, so unproblematic, that we find it the most difficult thing, simply because it seems too good to be true. And yet it is the truest encounter this life affords. In the end, there is nothing else.”