When Carl Jung was asked if he believed in God he famously replied: I don't believe, I know. He could say this because he had done the work.

Humility comes when it dawns that grace is necessary to make any real headway.

Give me a savage mind any day

Ego is the proverbial big fish in a small pond. It's main activity is reducing the pond to enlarge itself.

I still take GOD IS LOVE to be the most radical utterance. Not because it illuminates God but because it tells me what Love is.

God is the aether, the aethereal

Mind in Dantian is a natural state if we remain ever hungry. Never eat to fulness. In Yoga they recommend always at least 25% empty.

m=E/c²

(matter is frozen light)

Meditation keeps the home fires burning

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

—Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces, 1996

To learn anything worth learning we need passion & discipline.

If we don't embody the teaching then we don't have it.

Anything worth learning always presents difficulties only surmountable by change.

Real style is not having a program – it's how one behaves in a crisis.

—Frank Auerbach

Bring the mind to bear and a solution will present itself. Eventually. This is concentration and this is thinking. Good thinking.

Central equilibrium
A delicate poise
Hovering at the Point of Failure

Everything is psychosomatic

That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking. 

—Nietzsche, The Twilight of the Idols

Nowadays we are all control freaks. We only allow into our lives what we can control. But spirit is not controllable so is banished, and ends up working against us. How does this manifest? The diseases of the burgeoning bourgeoisie: anxiety, depression, autoimmune disease, cancer.

I usually wake in the morning at the first signs of light. Even when the slats are closed the light is felt. So I rise, sit on my cushion facing East, and meditate to the sun rising over the distant hills. A perfect way to start the day. Real communication is always heart to heart.

There are points in the body where two or more threads of energy tie together. These points need a presence of mind to keep the threads connected otherwise they tend to separate and then we leak energy and weaken.

Crown
Third Eye
Tongue / Palate
Throat
Thymus
Lower heart
Solar plexus
Dantian
Perineum
Heels / Ground
Big toes / Ground
Touching thumb tips when meditating

Each time we practice we remind ourselves.

Maybe unmind would be a better word.

Practise as though your life depends upon it. 

Actually it doesn't but really it does.

The Daoist mind equilibrates rather than chooses.

Mind in the head is agitated
Mind in the dantian is still

How on Earth do we focus the mind on the task at hand, except fleetingly? This is the problem that plagues every student that has ventured a tap of work. And the answer is simple enough: through the heart. It is not the mind that focuses the mind but the heart. The key to staying undistracted is a loving heart.

The only way the work will get done is if you fall in love with it.

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