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Month: November 2019

In, and out of the Silence

Can or should you remain in a state or place of “silence” or must or ought you return to the world?

Depression, Happiness, Mysticism, Peace, reality, Silence

Letting go

I hadn’t quite realized until very recently just how damaging the human ego is.

ego, Happiness, Peace

Unworked Wood

Let the world go by and you may find yourself at peace.

Flow, Happiness, Letting Go, Pu, Wei Wu Wei, Wu Wei

Mysticism

Fascinated by the concept of transcendence I have started to conceptualize what I believe such states of existence could be. 

Bliss, Peace, Sublime, Transcendance

The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth

Figuratively speaking I suspect the meek are indeed blessed and that in a sense they shall inherit, if not the earth, then at least a life of peace.

Aggression, Ambition, Happiness, Meekness

Travel Broadens the Mind

A day in Rye in East Sussex does not sound every-man’s idea of excitement but it is change which is important to the psyche, not distance traveled.

Change, Enjoyment, Fulfillment, Variety

The Contented Craftsman

Is there anything so wondrous as a man truly happy in his own skin and content with his life and … More

Contentment, Craftsman, Fulfillment, Happiness, Model Soldiers

To Concentrate on “Good Things”

How much better you feel when you focus on the good and ignore the bad.

Cure for Depression, Happiness, Rose Tinted Spectacles, The Black Lens

The Internet of Fools

The internet is colonized by those who do not know that they do not know.  Fools to put it less politely. Why?

Fools, Gurus, internet, snakeoil salesman

The Man in the White Porsche

There is nothing quite so odd as an elderly, fat, aggressive pig driving a white Porsche.

Aggression, Bully, Materialism, Snobbery

Picture from the Post Apocalypse

Imagine yourself, if you will, in a world post the apocalypse to come. 

Apocalypse, Arrogance, Chaos, Civlisation, Dystopia, Garden of Eden, Utopia

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