30 September 2011

a world in which the landscape itself 'sees'
Oppression is when force of habit resists the creative process

29 September 2011

I must not look on reality as being like myself
softened by shadow
evanescence
under a winter 
sky
under the surge of the blue

28 September 2011

I am a natural part of the general multiplicity only when my centre has power – when it is fully inhabited, and thereby fully activated. It is active being – being active – that drives me into my centre, more by necessity than by design (design is always doomed to failure).
We excel to the degree that the energy we expend exceeds our survival.

27 September 2011

things provide their own luminosity

26 September 2011

becoming all the more earthly by inventing laws of liquids and gases on which the earth depends

25 September 2011

Only from an unambiguous centre do I adequately embrace, and so intensely create.
Rare & strange
Intensity stresses time
We are punished by our sins, not for them

Elbert Hubbard
While reality is infinitely complex, it presents no problems

24 September 2011

When I am in my centre there is only outward, but when not centred there is only a yearning for inside.
Centre is unequivocal: singular. It is a place from which energy can only travel out, and so a place of no second thoughts.
We become internal by investing in our exteriority; that is, we find our centre/core by thrusting out from it rather than by looking into it.
From the outside there is no answer, but from the inside there is no question

23 September 2011

"I can't do the work for you; and if I could, I wouldn't."

John Kells

22 September 2011

tension is created by the fact that matter finds its home in space, whereas life finds its home in time
Power is in the connexion
We only really grasp reality when we let it slip through our fingers

21 September 2011

To establish possession of an abandoned city, does a javelin thrown against the door suffice, or must the door be touched by a finger?
We do not know what a body can do

20 September 2011

a nomadic propertyless existence
Negative action is motivated by fear; positive by spirit
A sense of humour keeps me slippery

19 September 2011

Tension is only wrong when used to hold on to something that would ordinarily pass.
Our only teachers are those who tell us 'do with me,' and are able to emit signs to be developed in heterogeneity rather than propose gestures for us to reproduce.
The good student falls in love with taichi, then practises at every opportunity.

18 September 2011

Desolidify the body; destabilize the mind.

17 September 2011

the idea that your own light becomes shadow in the overwhelming light of the divine, so bright, the only metaphor for it is darkness
one takes up or lays down rhythms
history is an attempt to make the past seem stable
No longer an authority.

16 September 2011

Spirit rectifies; and without it nothing can be right.
events of a geological kind,
rather like an earth tremor
elastic & fluid
fragmentary wholes

15 September 2011

dive into the Dionysiac delirium of Substance

14 September 2011

utterly intimate and yet utterly impersonal

12 September 2011

Fear is the passion of slaves.

11 September 2011

10 September 2011

Self-creating

09 September 2011

Joy and anxiety are mutually excluding – when anxiety dissipates then joy naturally springs to the fore. If not, then we are still anxious – anxious about being anxious.
Don’t write about what you think, or what you think you know, write about what puzzles you.

08 September 2011

Grind to dust the stubborn stone of obstinacy

07 September 2011

Making a difference
by interrupting the habitual state of practical distraction

06 September 2011

a buoyant prelapsarian naturalness
A gift well given comes (and goes) with a blessing – an excess of goodwill. So when we speak here of freedom we mean the freedom to give and receive blessings.

05 September 2011

human life cannot in any way be limited to the closed systems assigned to it by reasonable conceptions

04 September 2011

A deep, but dazling darkness
great mystics are people who become perfectly transparent vehicles for the singular creative force that surges through all living things
to affirm is to create, rather than to bear or to endure

03 September 2011

thought must be directed against reason without ceasing to be thought
Never work against the grain.
To become what one is, one must not have the faintest notion what one is.
essentially irreducible to language