What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.
— Carl Jung
Nordi Mukiele plays ‘happy football’. ⚽️ 😀
Ordinary enlightenment
I watched Paul Foot’s Dissolve show last night.
Apart from being very funny it was also very interesting hearing him talk about his moment of enlightenment which he refers to as ‘the event’.
In a recent Guardian interview he says:
It was a moment that was both extraordinary and ordinary – like stirring from a dream. It was just, ‘Oh, I’ve woken up …’ And it didn’t matter that I’d spent 28 years in a state of depression. It was gone. Everything was different.
Experiences like this interest me because they fall outside the stereotypical contexts of so-called spirituality, contemplation and meditation.
It appears he wasn’t consciously seeking or looking for anything but it seems his unconscious was ready to ‘break’ and allow a profound shift in perspective.
Jung would a have a field day.
He speaks about joy, the ‘end of suffering’ and ‘ego death’ in a very ordinary and matter of fact way.
I’m reminded of Zen teacher Charlotte ‘Joko’ Beck’s description of the awakened perspective as ‘nothing special’.
Sounds about right to me.
Good afternoon.
Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you’d think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.
— Lewis Thomas
Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.
— Carl Jung
Rewatching Sherlock Season 1 📺 Such a delight. So exquisitely written and produced. Some of the best TV drama of the last 20 years.
You’re looking through what you’re looking for. What you want to find is what’s allowing you to look.
Good morning.
Good night.
I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
— John Cage
This is fun! Even if we lose our next five matches we’re still on track of a point per match to stay up 💪
The problems caused by thought are not solved by more thinking.
The current season (5) of Slow Horses is getting slagged off and I don’t understand why. Perhaps because it’s less obvious than previous seasons? Odd. I’m enjoying it just as much if not more so.
Via @ayjay
I don’t know what makes a good social media network, but I do know what makes it so that when they go bad, you’re not stuck there. You and I might want totally different things out of our social media experience, but I think that you should 100 percent have the right to go somewhere else without losing anything. The easier it is for you to go without losing something, the better it is for all of us.
— Cory Doctorow
Good afternoon.
Accepting you cannot know who and what you are is wisdom.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
— Helen Keller
Initial plans afoot for a trip to India in the new year. Very excited! Never been before.
Good morning.
