Fascism arises when opinion is taken as truth.

a shiver of silence up the spine

Transformation is a wounding;
a shedding of what went before it.

—Autumn Richardson

Language keeps us safe in the known world. If you have a desire to venture into the unknown then you will need inner silence.

Don't fall victim to your own nobility – develop a ruthless streak. Liang called it enlightened self-interest.

Happy the way things are

silence & insight

God breaks the heart again & again & again until it stays open.

—Hazrat Inayat Khan

When you find your true home you realise you've been living in exile.

The struggle with internal work is to stop struggling.

The greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.

—Josef Pieper

The imagination is a wellspring of images that bubble up from the unconscious when the surface language-drenched mind stops.

Yielding brings energy in from outside
& attack sends energy out from inside

both
quiet
&
intense

Softness dissolves boundaries

In cogitation the thought or attention flits aimlessly about the subject. In meditation it circles round it, that is, it views it systematically, from all sides, gaining perspective. In contemplation it radiates from a centre, that is, as light from the sun it reaches out in an infinite number of ways to things that are related to or dependent on it.

—Ezra Pound, 1909, recalling in his own words ideas from Richard of St. Victor

When I really see the Other
then I see the world
through their
eyes

Yin & Yang are one vital force – the primordial aura.

—Wang Yangming

Forgiveness frees me from the past whilst grace allows me into the future.

The present moment is where forgiveness & grace become one.

The Master is free of four things: He doesn’t have preconceived ideas or foregone conclusions, he isn’t overly certain of himself, he isn’t unyielding, and he isn’t self-centered.

—Kǒngzǐ

Abnegating to the point of erasure

If you're not uncomfortable on a daily basis, you're not making much progress.

—Robin Sharma

If you're in the habit of pleasing yourself, you'll learn nothing.

The good student understands that the teaching's disclosure depends far more on their preparation & receptivity than the teacher's willingness to teach.

Cheng Man-ch'ing's Form is beautiful but if you model your own on that you'll never learn spirit.

Nobility: the ability to selflessly regard the bigger picture.