Modern luxury is the ability to think clearly, sleep deeply, move slowly, and live quietly in a world designed to prevent all four.
— Justin Welsh
Just as a man still is what he always was, so he already is what he will become. The conscious mind does not embrace the totality of a man, for this totality consists only partly of his conscious contents, and for the other and far greater part, of his unconscious, which is of indefinite extent with no assignable limits. In this totality the conscious mind is contained like a smaller circle within a larger one. Hence it is quite possible for the ego to be made into an object, that is to say, for a more compendious personality to emerge in the course of development and take the ego into its service.
— Carl Jung
Everything is precisely, exactly as it is, but doesn't arrive anywhere. There's no conclusion. It's pattern after pattern after pattern.
— James Low
I’ve heard so many people who are living with a cancer that is going to take them away say that there is a vernacular around battle terminology: You’re a winner or you’re a loser. It’s all about fighting. It’s such a red herring, that attitude, because it brings with it the concept that we might win…
— Tilda Swinton (from the New York Times)
A way of liberation can have no positive definition.
It has to be suggested by saying what it is not.
— Alan Watts, The Way of Zen
How old am I? I AM forever. As old as I’ve always been.
With Bluesky’s current explosive growth, now seems like a good time to run a mile.
Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.
— Meister Eckhart
Wrapping both Jung and Zen up in a neat package.
If you do one thing today, open your hand and heart and let go of whatever you’re holding onto. What we want is happy to go, what we need arises without desire.
You are not a problem to be solved.
Just as nothing is gained or attained, nothing is lost or wasted.
You can’t take credit for yourself, only responsibility.
You know that the antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest? … The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.
― David Whyte, Crossing the Unknown Sea
One my favourite book titles.
It also happens to be a great book too.
The only possible place to get to, the only attainable perspective, the only condition one simply cannot help experiencing is the present moment whatever it is, however it is.
There is nothing to be done but see ourselves clearly. With this clear recognition, what happens next is what happens next regardless of what we may want.