Just because we have the conceptual framework of a ‘new year’ a ‘new beginning’ doesn’t mean anything will change simply because we want it to, because we resolve for it to be so.
Things change when they’re ready to change. For better or worse is irrelevant. Change is neutral.
Our folly is to remain resolutely unsatisfied with the actual living truth, clearly and readily evident in each and every moment of our aliveness.
Our folly is to remain resolutely unsatisfied with the actual living truth, clearly and readily evident in each and every moment of our aliveness.
Despite what means we have at our disposal; science, art, religion – we get no closer to the mystery at the heart of life, the so-called ‘Truth’. What we seek, what we so desperately want to find, always remains out of reach and we fill the void with fictions and stories to stand in for what we cannot grasp.
Despite what means we have at our disposal; science, art, religion – we get no closer to the mystery at the heart of life, the so-called ‘Truth’. What we seek, what we so desperately want to find, always remains out of reach and we fill the void with fictions and stories to stand in for what we cannot grasp.
Hail and beware all stories.
Imagination and creativity have the potential to both trap us and set us free in equal measure.
Imagination and creativity have the potential to both trap us and set us free in equal measure.
Imagination and creativity have the potential to both trap us and set us free in equal measure.
What do you do?
The same as everyone else. Just live.
If you’re confused, anxious or afraid you’re definitely lost in thought.
So much pointless anguish lies at the foot of thinking we know why we do what we do.
We can spend hours and hours thinking and thinking and it all pales and falls so dramatically short of the raw, immediacy and vibrant actuality of the aliveness of the present moment.
Life isn't a dress rehearsal – this is it. It's your job to show up for this moment.
Oliver Burkeman
The existence or not or rather the belief or non-belief in free will is just mental gymnastics. Great fun yet of no consequence whatsoever when simply living one’s life.
Blind devotion to a religion, scripture, guru, teacher or tradition is always a dead end. However, the organic and open-ended combination of any or some of the above with one’s own experience and insights can be transformational.
Whatever you find yourself doing (even if it’s scrolling soc med or disappearing down a YouTube hole) just do it with the full and open awareness that that is what you’re doing.
We are often reminded to not confuse the map with the territory, yet it is more confusing to forget that the map is actually part of the territory.
Imagination abhors a vacuum. In our attempts to understand we most often find ourselves fabricating.