Nothing happens in which you are not entangled.

Carl Jung

Bad things happen, we are smashed apart, we rebuild ourselves, we are changed, we move onwards. More often than not we find ourselves improved, we grow, we get stronger, deeper.

Nick Cave

Not everything has a story. Not everything needs a story.

What we are does not exist in language.

All there is, is this one bottomless moment, present experiencing here and now—ever-present, ever-changing. Sometimes it is lit up (in waking and dreaming); sometimes it is dark (in deep sleep). Although darkness and light are different, they are inseparable. This boundless whole is seamless and indivisible…

Nothing Missing

Realisation is reality right now. Even shocks, doubts, fears, and frights are none other than reality right now…

Dogen

The key to peace of mind, I say, resides not in practices and paths, but in suffering consciously the ordinary pain, fear, and confusion that come into every life automatically, and differently for each of us.

This right now is it, whether you ‘meditate’ or you don’t. For me, awake means living this right now fully with eyes wide open.

Robert Saltzman

One can not feel the conscious need or want to do anything at all, yet be powerfully moved to simply act out of nowhere.

Your life
Your lived experience
Your own unique aliveness
That simply is
Without need or want
In every moment
Is the only possible way

You want to become a Buddha? There’s no need to become a Buddha! Now is simply now. You are simply you. And tell me, since you want to leave the place where you are, where is it exactly you want to go?

‘Homeless’ Kodo Sawaki