Life is an ongoing movement into the unknown and no matter how many times this might occur to us, it's never going to seem commonplace. No matter how many times...
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Whenever we think or feel that things shouldn’t be the way that they are then we create the self. Whenever we resist something we create the self. This isn't to...
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As we get on with our life, getting involved in whatever it is we are getting involved with, our main business – whether we realise it or not – is...
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Our outer nature is an inversion of the inner. We could even go so far as to say that the ‘outer’ and ‘inner’ natures belong to ‘two different worlds’ and...
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The only genuine (i.e. ‘non-fake') type of joy is the type of joy that comes when we discover that what we thought was true, actually isn’t true at all! This...
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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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