We are nature. The energy of our thoughts and feelings germinate like seedlings. Our ideas and imaginative fantasies unfold like ferns, our concepts and language expand in all directions like trees.

Everything is always it. Even that which emerges from us that claims not to be or seems not to be – is still an essential and integral part of our whole differentiated yet indivisible aliveness.

The seeing is the letting go.

Toni Packer

Darkness holds, nurtures, enables and sustains the light. There can be no wholeness or complete perfection without the generative energy of opposites.

How can I be substantial without casting a shadow? I must have a dark side too if I am to be whole; and by becoming conscious of my shadow I remember once more that I am a human being like any other…

…The goal of the cathartic method is full confession—not merely the intellectual recognition of the facts with the head, but their confirmation by the heart and the actual release of suppressed emotion.

Carl Jung

Change is inevitable, progress not necessarily.

Each of us can’t help but fully live the aliveness we are, even in spite of all the thoughts, ideas and concepts which may arise to the contrary. Our lives are full, whole and complete however they unfold.

I don’t really know anything about myself other than what appears to happen in each moment.

There is no imperative or desire that can get you any closer to or reveal what is already here.

Force will not reveal anything, contemplative or otherwise. The transition from clenched fist to open hand reveals the emptiness of everything, releases misguided effort and simply allows whatever may emerge, painful or not.

‘This’ is undeniable yet inexpressible.

The bottomless well of present being is all we can really draw upon.

I consider myself blessed and grateful for having very little imagination.

Forever reaching for the light, bliss, joy etc. does not ensure their realisation. Instead it almost always keeps them forever out of reach. These things just happen whether we want them to or not.

I am not a thing in the world; I am the space in which the world is happening.

Richard Lang

Get out of your own way…

Everything is included and necessary, particularly the profound trauma that was the catalyst for this transformative process.

Came across these journal entries from a year ago today:

The specifics of where I am, and what I do are irrelevant. I am always right here, right now riding the irresistible, ungraspable wave of being — out of where I know not and where to a mystery yet to be revealed.

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This realisation is like becoming a monk in the monastery of the world. For a traditional monk huge swathes of life are pre-dealt with and need no consideration.

Recognising that this is also true for ‘ordinary’ people in the midst of ‘ordinary’ life can be seen by giving up control to the universe — which in truth was already the case anyway and was merely occluded by ignorance.

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I don’t find it helpful to think in terms of being one thing as opposed to another. Awakened or not awakened? Who cares? A pointless query that seems to demand a definitive answer, to force us one way instead of another. To what end? Enlightened or not? I have no idea and don’t care for such superficial, arbitrary distinctions and labels.