Ordinary Life
Peak Experience
What do we expect peak experience to feel like?
Meaningful Work
Simple needs, human needs - genuine human needs. But what is this word genuine and what does it have to do with need?
Love, and do as you please
These words have been present in me today. Over and over again they arise, a gentle repetitive rhythm … love, and do as you please.
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
“Our only trouble,” thought Pahóm, “is that we haven’t land enough. If I had plenty of land, I shouldn’t fear the Devil himself.”
The holidays are done
I have had two weeks off, and the world has seemed to join me in taking a break. Empty streets and shuttered shops, fathers playing with their children in the woods, houses glowing lightly against the falling darkness. Freedom from the usual round of obligations, from the rhythms of the
How's life?
This morning, I had what I like to dignify by calling a minor epiphany (you could also just call it "a thought", but where's the fun in that?). The epiphany arrived in a cafe. I sipped my double espresso and stared at my notebook. “I am
Stillness
I had an interesting experience yesterday. It began by sitting down and staring at the pointy end of a long stick (not a euphemism) - this is the way in which my therapist and I begin brainspotting, a therapeutical method we’ve been using for about the last 15 months.
Experiences of Racism
I experience myself as living in a racist society.
Magic
Every moment of my life, I am carried by magic.
Philosophy and Ordinary Life
The actual world had asked something of him. But he lived in the true world and had failed to answer the call.
Walking with Death
Death was my companion on this walk.