Stories, quotes, experiments, practices, bits and bobs that consistently give me sudden glimpses into the nature of existence. A list of “personal koans”. A collection of psychoactive bits of text. Maybe they’ll hit you too.
- “The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there’s no ground.” - Chögyam Trungpa
- “Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.” - James Joyce in Dubliners
- “The truth knocks on the door and you say: “Go away, I’m looking for the truth,” and so it goes away.” - Robert M. Pirsig in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- “If you understand it, you don’t need to memorize it. If you don’t understand it, you don’t want to memorize it.” - Naval Ravikant
- Stand in front of a mirror. What is the person in the mirror looking at?
- Look at someone and say to them “I am space for you.” Note how you’re already space for the world. From Richard Lang’s The Headless Way.
- “I never saw a wilde thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.” - D.H. Lawrence
- “Action produces information. Just keep doing things.” - Paul Graham
- “Never hurry, never cease.” - Martha Beck
- “I make my Mind my Friend.” - anonymous samurai