by @zeneveryday@mastodon.social
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
— Lao Tzu
Oooh!
It was only when I was able to fully admit to and accept the merciless cruelty I was capable of towards myself that it completely ceased, never to return. Not only that but for the first time in my life I felt completely whole. With no more hole to fill I lacked nothing nor needed anything.
😂 by @Richard_Littler@mastodon.social
The Repair Shop with Werner Herzog – Guest: “Stunning work, thank you. “WH: “How do you feel seeing this object, a symbol of your dead wife? Though constructed of crude, worthless materials, it has been resurrected like some cheap miracle, mocking your grief and dead wife, now condemned to oblivion.”
You have got to let go and let it happen.
— Alan Watts
Early big breakfast before today’s long shift. Fully fuelled and ready to go! 😂
Good morning.
I must have a dark side too if I am to be whole; and by becoming conscious of my shadow I remember once more that I am a human being like any other.
— Carl Jung
There is no ground there at all. It’s not that it’s nothing, because it’s not nothing, but there’s no thing there to hold onto.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
— Carl Jung
Extraordinary film. Says so much with so little. Powerfully relevant. The Zone of Interest 🍿
The exploration of mystery – the gift that keeps on giving…
The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions, and to all people, experiencing everything totally, without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws and centralises into oneself. This produces a tremendous energy which is usually locked up in the process of mental evasion and a general running away from life experiences.
— Chogyam Trungpa
In tonight’s meditation there was a sense for how it’s not about being calm. It’s about what is true.
Thoughts are natural events that you do not possess, and whose meaning you only imperfectly recognize.
— Carl Jung
That time of year.
All that practice comes down to, in the end, is acceptance.
I don’t use any music services to be able to link to but just want to recommend D’Angelo’s Voodoo album from 2000 in honour of his passing today.
So who am I? Let’s back into this question, shall we? I cannot be located between two dates on a calendar, still less summed up in an obituary or encapsulated in a string of events. And most certainly the I that I am cannot be remembered.
It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid of everything he does not know and does not want to know about himself by foisting it off on somebody else.
— Carl Jung