While the teachings of others can be extraordinarily helpful, essential even, don’t forget to listen out for what our inner voice can teach us through our own spontaneous, instinctive expressions and insights.
We can be eternally grateful if our work is identical to or an expression of our deepest original nature.
The idea of liberation automatically inhibits the simple realisation that we are already free.
Wei Wu Wei
There are no concepts here, no ideas, no stories, no meaning, no style, no art, no aesthetic — only everything in its place just as it is.
As our relationship to thinking changes we don’t cease to think, we simply lose the continual manic narration.
Can we recognise that hope is just fear in disguise?
Nothing is merely a means to an end, nothing is merely a step on the path to somewhere else. Every moment, everything, is absolutely foundational in its own right.
Barry Magid
Can we see how we tend to slice and dice our experience of the world, divide the seamless whole into ‘this’ and ‘that’?
This behaviour is easy and reassuring but only serves to solidify the abundant and infinite difference and variance of the world into immutable and distant objects to like and dislike.
“At some point there is a line we cross, and we find ourselves beyond the line.
Francis Lucille
We discover that there is something else, independently from me as a person… we are interested in something bigger, you see, and that’s when it becomes really rewarding and interesting. So we have to discover in us this impersonal interest for the Truth, not always coming from this mercantile view that we do something in order to to get something for ourselves.”
Thisness 