Thisness…

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

Andy Warhol

I hated being depressed, but it was in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.

Andrew Solomon

The unconscious on one side is nothing but nature, and on the other hand it is the overcoming of nature; it is yea and nay in itself, two things in one. So we shall never understand what the unconscious is, as we shall never understand what the world is, because it is and it is not.

Carl Jung

There is a there, there. But when you’re there, there’s nothing there.

Wittgenstein’s assertion that:

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof must one be silent.

is about as Zen as it gets.

Language is perhaps one of the most exquisite yet clumsiest of human flowerings. It can make a genius and a fool of the same person.

Meaning is contingent, it is situational, it is not intrinsic. All the infinite diversity of phenomena is the infinite diversity of experience. If you understand this you free yourself from becoming a slave to materialism.

James Low

Things are finite. Being is infinite.

Any mood, sense or feeling that this isn’t it is just as much it as any mood, sense or feeling that this is it.

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Susan Ertz

Recognition, acceptance, gratitude, wholeness, completion, aliveness, simply being etc… are not solutions to problems, answers to questions or inoculations from pain and/ or suffering. They are simply what happens involuntarily, what you are spontaneously when you cease to torture yourself with dreams of ‘awakening’ or ‘enlightenment’ or any other curative fantasy.

Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.

Thich Nhat Hanh

There is nothing that doesn’t belong. Everything has its place.

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

G.K. Chesterson

We cannot rid ourselves of anything that happens because we are everything that happens.

The degree of grieving can be mistakenly seen as the degree of love instead of, as it often is, the amount we want to possess others for ourselves.

Love, support, care and compassion are not the same as dependant attachment. We can care for people without wanting to possess them for ourselves.

James Low

Beware the comfort of spiritual opium.

Joan Tollifson

…experience is not happening to you, it is you.

John Astin

If we sit quietly, making no effort, life expresses itself clearly; it simply happens on its own. There’s nothing else to get. The great truth is obvious. The heart beats; the breath comes and goes. Vibrations, pulsations, twinges, feelings, thoughts, and emotions rise and fall. Urges rise and pass; some become actions, others do not, and so life flows.

Darryl Bailey