

I’m a support worker in adult social care with an open-ended curiosity in the nature of mind.

Our thoughts and ideas are the least of us. Always late to the party that’s already in full swing, uninvited yet full of their own self importance and righteousness.
What appears to be a centre is but a point on the periphery of another centre. The totality of a thing is actual infinity.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
If you drop the entire weight of authority–the scriptures; the words and histories of the God-men; all the teachings of all the gurus; the encumbrance of all the religions and metaphysical conceptions– just drop ALL of it as if it were a bunch of meaningless chit-chat–and just stop assuming that there is something to find or to gain through any kind of effort, the identity of self and experience, I say, will be obvious.
Robert Saltzman
The idea of progress towards realization or perfection in some imagined future is delusional thinking. There is no way to progress from here to here…
Robert Saltzman
When you nurture the ability to witness your life in the third person, in extremis, or through prayer or meditation, there is an unavoidable shift in consciousness…
Simon Van Booy
Simply appreciate the fact that anything is even happening at all. Notice that something is present, that something is undoubtedly being perceived. But don’t worry about what that something is nor how it is being labeled or described. Instead, just revel in the fact of its existence. The fact that it’s even here at all.
John Astin

There is no more or less aliveness anywhere else. No more or less living other than here. You’re either fully and totally alive here, now or not at all.
