Melting already.
Melting already.
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often are a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.
— Carl Jung
Just made it home as the snow started to settle and deepen. Switched to a later shift tomorrow so hopefully the rain will have cleared the worst by then…
Joy at the smallest things comes to you only when you have accepted death. But if you look out greedily for all that you could still live, then nothing is great enough for your pleasure, and the smallest things that continue to surround you are no longer a joy. Therefore I behold death, since it teaches me how to live. If you accept death, it is altogether like a frosty night and an anxious misgiving, but a frosty night in a vineyard full of sweet grapes. You will soon take pleasure in your wealth. Death ripens. One needs death to be able to harvest the fruit. Without death, life would be meaningless, since the long-lasting rises again and denies its own meaning.
— Carl Jung
“Thoughts arise and fall as flowers live and wilt. Stars fade over eons in the night sky and clouds pass and change.
Everything is changing all the time. Thoughts come and go. But who is thinking them?”
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Thoughts arise and fall as flowers live and wilt. Stars fade over eons in the night sky and clouds pass and change.
Everything is changing all the time. Thoughts come and go. But who is thinking them?
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Listening to Zen teacher and psychoanalyst Barry Magid’s Ordinary Mind.
Excellent so far. Within minutes I belatedly learned the difference between psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
Listening to Zen teacher and psychoanalyst Barry Magid’s Ordinary Mind.
Excellent so far. Within minutes I belatedly learned the difference between psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. 🤦♂️ 🧘♂️
This seemed like a suitable companion for the cold and dark drive to work this morning. “Dark and long…” 😉 🎵
“Zen is feeling life, not something about life.”
— Alan Watts
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Experience without language. Wordless being.
Experience without language. Wordless being. 🧘♂️
Thoughts and feelings are not a problem. Believing they are is.
Thoughts and feelings are not a problem. Believing they are is. 🧘♂️
Can’t believe it’s a year since I last watched Luke Littler in the final of the PDC World Championship. Can he win it this time…?
Such a lot has happened in the past 12 months. I’m sitting in a different house for a start!
“Human memory, driven by emotional self-interest, goes to extraordinary lengths to provide evidence to back up whatever understanding of the world we have our hearts set on—however removed that may be from reality.”
— David Shields
“Remembering and fiction-making are virtually indistinguishable.”
“Remembering his country, he imagined it.”
— David Shields