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Aren’t you?
Read more: Aren’t you?i am. tired, so very fucking tired. tired of missing out, losing out, lucking out, tired of swallowing my sweat chasing some simulated rainbow in a system of sprinklers designed to cool and coddle only the very few.tired of trying hard to be those few, of figuring out what to do, how to duck, when…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“The first and most important function of religion is to connect you with the mystery of life and the mystery of your own being. When religion fails to do this, it has betrayed its primary mission, and all we are left with is dogma and belief. The churches, synagogues, and temples of all religions are…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“Spirituality begins with work on our minds, which we are all capable of.” Matthieu Ricard, Buddhist monk, in The Quantum and the Lotus
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“Alan Wallace wrote, ‘Human beings define the objects and events of the world that we experience. Those things do not exist intrinsically, or absolutely, as we define or conceive of them. They do not exist intrinsically at all. But this is not to say that they do not exist. The entities that we identify exist…
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Join me on Substack!
Read more: Join me on Substack!As of this week, you can also find me on Substack. Subscribe to my profile there to receive exclusive material (longer stories, notes, essays and travels – plus, hopefully, podcasts and live action), or follow me here for my usual posts and news about my books – whichever you prefer! Thank you so much for…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“All too often we love ourselves on the basis of a story of our own specialness or uniqueness. We could call this “the Facebook version of love”, in which the word simply means “like a lot” and/or “strongly approve of”. The great significance our culture places on individual difference is spiritually problematic because on the…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“The self-help industry has perpetuated the story that the purpose of human life is psychological and/or spiritual growth, and that this growth – despite never being clearly defined – inevitably leads to the actualization of your innate potential and the manifestation of the “best version of you”. This is in fact a very modern idea.…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“… nothing that can be said in words is complete or absolute Truth. The Real cannot be adequately captured by language, and therefore all attempts to do so are approximations that have a relative utility. An approximation in language (i.e., a narrative) is useful insofar as it ultimately leads you beyond language to a desired…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“… since the dominant belief system of the modern West is psychology, Westerners want to know if the spirits of the traditional view are thought to have independent agency, because if not, they can be explained in psychological terms as aspects of our own mind—which makes most Westerners quite comfortable and prompts them to nod…
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Jenseits des Nennbaren
Read more: Jenseits des NennbarenJenseits des Nennbaren liegt der Anfang der Welt. Sein und Nichtsein erzeugen einander. Der SINN faßt alles Bestehende in sich. Besser ist es, das Innere zu bewahren. Der Geist der Tiefe stirbt nicht. Er entäußert sich seines Selbst, und sein Selbst bleibt erhalten. Des Wassers Güte ist es, allen Wesen zu nützen ohne Streit. Ist…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“By focusing attention on the so-called “objective” consensus about a given object, our culture takes the most superficial layer of reality to be the primary one and thus fails to realize that it is the sum total of the different perspectives on the object that constitute its multidimensional reality. It is the so-called subjective dimension…
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