No questions, no answers, just curiosity.
A map can never reflect or represent the territory because it, too, is part of the territory. There is only the territory.
Existence, being, presence – undoubtable yet ungraspable.
Even temporal, so called peak experiences pale and fall within the infinite experience of everything that is always happening.
You can’t have anything without everything else.
And the deepest truth is not to find an answer, but to live with the answer-less-ness.
Joan Tollifson
Self-study of any seriousness aspires to myth. Thus do we endlessly inscribe and magnify ourselves.
David Shields
It’s already happened, it’s already too late, life has already happened. This is it. So your opinion of whether it is good or bad or right or wrong is irrelevant.
James Low
Everything is a movement of the whole.
Joan Tollifson
...you don’t develop compassion by sending others love from the safety of your own comfort zone. That isn’t how it works. You do it by immersing yourself in their chaos. And if you are able to emerge from that chaos with even a shred of self-understanding, then that is your act of compassion.
Shiv Sengupta
It is easy to mistake for intelligence and insight just more and sophisticated language manipulation. This is particularly evident in the large language models (LLMs) of AI.
More and more I seem to find the world of ordinary everyday things more interesting, appealing and fulfilling than anything art, music or literature etc. may conjure up. The world, as it is, is more than enough.
Confusion is a state that can only be brought about by thinking and language.
One always dies too soon — or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
Jean Paul Sartre
The manner in which you relate to suffering directly influences whether you will perpetuate more suffering in yourself and the world, or whether you will mitigate it.
Shiv Sengupta
Dialogue Between the Seeker and Life
Seeker: I want to be more open.
Life: I AM pure openness.Seeker: I want to become more present.
Life: I AM ever-present.Seeker: I want to feel move alive.
Life: I AM Life!Seeker: I want to be more at ease
Life: I AM completely at ease because there is nothing outside of me.Seeker: I want to live more in the here and now.
Life: I AM the here and now.Seeker: I want to be more aware.
Life: I AM always aware.Seeker: I want to be more accepting.
Life: My nature is to allow everything that appears because I AM everything that appears.Seeker: I want to realize that I am not separate from Reality/God/The Ground of Being.
Life: In me, there is no separation anywhere to be found.
There is never nothing/ no things – there is always everything.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung