If you have to live (with something), if it’s inevitable and inescapable, you’d best learn to love it.
I’m talking about life itself, all of it.
You gotta go all the way.
If you have to live (with something), if it’s inevitable and inescapable, you’d best learn to love it.
I’m talking about life itself, all of it.
You gotta go all the way.
Miles Davis said that there are no wrong notes, that it’s the next note that determines whether the previous one is right or wrong. And it got me thinking about that space after one note but before the next, when the absence of the last note is hanging there – pregnant, unresolved. Is it harmonious…
No-one has ever experienced unconsciousness for even a moment. There is zero first-person evidence for it’s existence. Consciousness is always present. It’s only the content that changes, comes and goes. You are that consciousness.
Sometimes it seems there’s a whole generation of people who are perpetually triggered and always tense. They live in a state of constant reactivity. They’ll often report the reasons are things like systemic injustice, racism, sexism, etc. And so their anger and agitation is justified. Maybe so. As a generation Millennials (and Gen-Z) are not…
Our trouble starts when we privilege thinking over direct experience. When this becomes an ingrained habit of relating to the world and ourselves even the suggestion to drop out of the mind and into the non-conceptual being can be violently resisted. But for the sake of our peace and freedom we must learn to let…
Spiritual awakening is a lot like the creative process, because when you engage in meditation or introspection or inquiry, if you’re motivated by money or acquisition or anything like that it pollutes the process. It’s more important to be open and to play and be curious, to be intuitive and fearless rather than be wondering…
While I’m here I might as well be drunk on love.