Positive thinking is still just more thinking. It doesn’t solve the problem it purports to.
See if you can notice the ever-present experience of desire and aversion?
Sam Harris
What do we really mean, what are we really saying when we say ‘we let our guard down’?
True psychological freedom and genuine responsibility for oneself enable and reinforce each other in a positive feedback loop. They are inseparable.
The teachings and pointers of others will only get you so far. Only you can recognise your way home.
Dogs on the beach
Running, barking, playing, rolling
Expressing their own aliveness the only way they know how
Nothing but pure being
The simplicity of unmediated energy
We have much to unlearn
The indivisibility of sound and silence, of form and emptiness.
There comes a point where there are few teachings wiser or more efficacious than our own insights.
In almost every circumstance we are afraid of an idea, an image, a story, a concept and never actual reality.
I have to find a way to survive, like we all did when we were children…
Hanif Kureishi
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