When we meditate we don't do so for profit – on the contrary, we meditate out of our ‘actual integrity as human beings'. ‘Doing things for profit' and ‘doing things...
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'The human condition', says Eckhart Tolle, is that we are ‘lost in thought'; we could equally well say that our default condition is that we are ‘obsessed with nonsense'. Being...
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Institutions inflict violence on reality. Institutions commit violence on reality (we might say) because they ignore the subtlety of reality completely – they act as if reality were not ‘what...
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When thought is allowed to take control then it sets us an impossible task – it drives us ever onward in the doomed attempt to accomplish something that can never...
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‘Living life in the wrong way', to borrow Lawrence Durrell's phrase, is where we spend all our time feeding the mechanical reflexes that live in us and turning our backs...
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When we’re having a bad time then this – as Greg Tucker says - proves (apparently quite definitively, too) that we exist and so this is a good thing. It's...
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Positive therapy is where we say (or assume) that we can obtain mental health (or freedom from mental restriction and suffering) deliberately, in a rational and purposeful way. There is...
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Identifying with the concrete sense of self is a irreversible process, a process that works one way but not the other. We can check in but not check out, in...
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The self is always 'incorrigibly rigid' in its nature; we can say that the self is 'incorrigibly rigid' because it is bound by its very nature to protect certain beliefs...
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The greatest and most insidious danger that we face in life is a danger of our horizons narrowing down and narrowing down without us noticing what is happening, until we...
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Our goals are not important to us in the way that we think they are (and say that they are), our goals are important to us because we use them...
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Wherever we truly see the world around us, as if we are seeing it ‘for the very first time', then we are seeing from a ‘non-equilibrium position’. And conversely, when...
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