09 February 2024

a willingness to live metaphorically

08 February 2024

tender & petalling

07 February 2024

06 February 2024

a weather eye : a weather ear
Prayer is a re-minder. It brings you back to mind as site of awareness & devotion, before you have sullied it with thinking. Prayer is also a remembering; a rejoining with the cosmos; a reaching out & in to the infinite.
I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.
When a true artist steps back from their creation they always say the same thing: That wasn't me.
follow your nose
take up the slack
The teacher offers intimations of what you would experience if only your mind was more focused and your energy a little stronger. You still have to do the work to bring about that inner probity. No one can do it for you.
The Imagination is not a State: it is Human Existence itself.

05 February 2024

keep an ear to the ground

04 February 2024

tighten your belt

03 February 2024

the good student has won the battle over their own incorrigiblity

02 February 2024

In the same way that countries that have only known war are terrified of peace, so people who have only known noise & distraction are terrified of silence. The real enemy is always fear.
I have with me all that I do not know
I have lost none of it
if you wish to experience reality in all its visceral intensity then be present at a birth

the birth of each & every moment

01 February 2024

like an eager schoolchild on the edge of their seat with interest