Hardness comes from on high whereas softness seeps up from below.

This long process of disillusionment.

Watch a person enrapt with their screen, be it phone or computer or TV, and you will see their energy draining into it and nothing coming back but a flickery neurotic glow. The wrong sort of attention.

Sink & relax. This is how it starts. And how it continues. Everything we do happens in this field: the field of sinking, of gravity. Our first breakthrough is letting gravity into the body. The second is letting it into the mind.

History lives in and through our bodies right now, and in every moment.

Every artist knows the negative correlation between feeling good and being creative. True creativity requires a vulnerability and a loss of control that feels just this side of unbearable. What sustains it on that edge long enough for the work to get done is spirit. The absolute necessity of spirit.

Like an errant teenager, ever admonished to tidy their room.

Empty the mind. Then and only then can it fill with what it's meant to – wonder.

A noisy mind is an excuse not to listen to anything else.

An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

The realisation of the Higher Self. This our project. Realisation in the sense of a making real. What distinguishes the Higher Self is its noble silence; what distinguishes the lower self – the Ego – is its endless chatter, its neurotic noise. This is why spiritual work – work devoted to realising the Higher Self – is generally a matter of producing silence by dampening the Ego.

Embrace difference because without it nothing would change.

The first major discovery you make when you get into internal work is that you don't need mummy and daddy any longer. The second major discovery you make (almost as mind-blowing as the first) is that you don't need the self any more either. Now you can commence the work of their destruction. Spiritual work is always negative, always destructive.

Language justifies injustice.

life is not simply organism, but process, and thus movement

Becoming aware of what's always been there but I've been too preoccupied to notice.

The only thing really ours is the body so get to know and appreciate it. Dwell in it.