Your own way, your own instinctive energy of movement is more important than any one particular school of thought or practice. There are many wise and useful insights to be gleaned from across the diverse and wide spectrum of traditions as well as contemporary contemplative work. Yet, always trust yourself, have faith in what you find yourself moved to do above all else. Your own unique truth is ultimately the only realisation worth living.
What is actually happening is beyond doubt yet cannot be expressed.
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
Kahlil Gibran
Looking back over the last two or three years, if there is anything that could be said to have happened I suppose it has been a gradual process of relaxing and letting go…
Recognition, acceptance and gratitude for impermanence and inseperability.
As a country, and in the family of origin, people talk about the tragedy of the thousands who die of fentanyl overdoses while finishing off their fourth glass of wine while popping another THC gummy. But that’s a whole other conversation…
Carl Jung: Individuation and Recovery
Stumbled across poet d. a. levy for the first time. An extraordinary character.
if you want a revolution
return to your childhood
and kick out the bottom…
…this is not a game
your childhood
is the foundation
of the system…
d. a. levy - extracts from the poem ‘Tombstone as a Lonely Charm’
I don’t think we would be in such a perilous state if we men were able to fully acknowledge the feminine aspects of our psyche.
The simplicity of appearance before interpretation…
The living actuality of the here and now requires no belief, faith, story, meaning or supporting theory, unless… you happen to be thinking, imagining you are in some other place in some other time.
One can easily throw dust into one's own eyes with theories.
Carl Jung
I didn’t do anything to find myself here and now.
Thinking is something the universe is doing in the form of human beings. Like everything else, it is an activity of the whole, inseparable from everything it apparently is not.
Joan Tollifson
Seer and seen arise and set together.
John Troy
If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
If we attend closely and carefully to what is undeniable, paradoxically it reveals that everything is unknowable.
Perhaps our refusal to face reality is the only ill we suffer from, and all the rest is just illusion and delusion.
Henry Miller – Stand Still Like The Hummingbird