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  1. THE JOY OF BEING
    AN IRRELEVANT OLD FART 💎

    I have been stripped of almost everything.

    Even the body I once thought of as mine has been altered beyond recognition.

    And yet, strangely, I have more than I could ever have imagined.

    I don’t chase money anymore, and I have enough.

    I do not chase health, and I experience more health and wellbeing than I once thought possible.

    I do not chase sex, status, approval or achievement.

    And because I am no longer chasing, life comes to me quietly and kindly.

    Abundant health.

    Abundant wealth.

    Fairly continuous peace of mind.

    And ease of practice.

    The pursuit was what kept everything at a distance.

    Now I am old, and no one is asking me to build a career, provide an identity, prove myself or become someone.

    That is the great privilege of being an old man.

    You get to become a monk again.

    There is time.

    There is space.

    There is less interference.

    Old age is usually presented as decline.

    Pain.

    Illness.

    Loss.

    A slow shutting down.

    But at 70, that has not been my experience.

    It has become a delightful place in which the spiritual practice I only feigned as a young man can now become real.

    The world asks less of me now.

    And because it asks less, I can listen more deeply.

    I can reset.

    I can “choose once again.”

    I can allow kindness to become the law of the land.

    Nothing is missing.

    Nothing needs to be acquired.

    “I need do nothing.”

    The old man’s privilege is not that he has escaped life.

    It is that life has finally become simple enough for him to see.

    #FART #identity #build #JOY #kindness #reset #old #man #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  2. THE JOY OF BEING
    AN IRRELEVANT OLD FART 💎

    I have been stripped of almost everything.

    Even the body I once thought of as mine has been altered beyond recognition.

    And yet, strangely, I have more than I could ever have imagined.

    I don’t chase money anymore, and I have enough.

    I do not chase health, and I experience more health and wellbeing than I once thought possible.

    I do not chase sex, status, approval or achievement.

    And because I am no longer chasing, life comes to me quietly and kindly.

    Abundant health.

    Abundant wealth.

    Fairly continuous peace of mind.

    And ease of practice.

    The pursuit was what kept everything at a distance.

    Now I am old, and no one is asking me to build a career, provide an identity, prove myself or become someone.

    That is the great privilege of being an old man.

    You get to become a monk again.

    There is time.

    There is space.

    There is less interference.

    Old age is usually presented as decline.

    Pain.

    Illness.

    Loss.

    A slow shutting down.

    But at 70, that has not been my experience.

    It has become a delightful place in which the spiritual practice I only feigned as a young man can now become real.

    The world asks less of me now.

    And because it asks less, I can listen more deeply.

    I can reset.

    I can “choose once again.”

    I can allow kindness to become the law of the land.

    Nothing is missing.

    Nothing needs to be acquired.

    “I need do nothing.”

    The old man’s privilege is not that he has escaped life.

    It is that life has finally become simple enough for him to see.

    #FART #identity #build #JOY #kindness #reset #old #man #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  3. THE JOY OF BEING
    AN IRRELEVANT OLD FART 💎

    I have been stripped of almost everything.

    Even the body I once thought of as mine has been altered beyond recognition.

    And yet, strangely, I have more than I could ever have imagined.

    I don’t chase money anymore, and I have enough.

    I do not chase health, and I experience more health and wellbeing than I once thought possible.

    I do not chase sex, status, approval or achievement.

    And because I am no longer chasing, life comes to me quietly and kindly.

    Abundant health.

    Abundant wealth.

    Fairly continuous peace of mind.

    And ease of practice.

    The pursuit was what kept everything at a distance.

    Now I am old, and no one is asking me to build a career, provide an identity, prove myself or become someone.

    That is the great privilege of being an old man.

    You get to become a monk again.

    There is time.

    There is space.

    There is less interference.

    Old age is usually presented as decline.

    Pain.

    Illness.

    Loss.

    A slow shutting down.

    But at 70, that has not been my experience.

    It has become a delightful place in which the spiritual practice I only feigned as a young man can now become real.

    The world asks less of me now.

    And because it asks less, I can listen more deeply.

    I can reset.

    I can “choose once again.”

    I can allow kindness to become the law of the land.

    Nothing is missing.

    Nothing needs to be acquired.

    “I need do nothing.”

    The old man’s privilege is not that he has escaped life.

    It is that life has finally become simple enough for him to see.

    #FART #identity #build #JOY #kindness #reset #old #man #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  4. THE JOY OF BEING
    AN IRRELEVANT OLD FART 💎

    I have been stripped of almost everything.

    Even the body I once thought of as mine has been altered beyond recognition.

    And yet, strangely, I have more than I could ever have imagined.

    I don’t chase money anymore, and I have enough.

    I do not chase health, and I experience more health and wellbeing than I once thought possible.

    I do not chase sex, status, approval or achievement.

    And because I am no longer chasing, life comes to me quietly and kindly.

    Abundant health.

    Abundant wealth.

    Fairly continuous peace of mind.

    And ease of practice.

    The pursuit was what kept everything at a distance.

    Now I am old, and no one is asking me to build a career, provide an identity, prove myself or become someone.

    That is the great privilege of being an old man.

    You get to become a monk again.

    There is time.

    There is space.

    There is less interference.

    Old age is usually presented as decline.

    Pain.

    Illness.

    Loss.

    A slow shutting down.

    But at 70, that has not been my experience.

    It has become a delightful place in which the spiritual practice I only feigned as a young man can now become real.

    The world asks less of me now.

    And because it asks less, I can listen more deeply.

    I can reset.

    I can “choose once again.”

    I can allow kindness to become the law of the land.

    Nothing is missing.

    Nothing needs to be acquired.

    “I need do nothing.”

    The old man’s privilege is not that he has escaped life.

    It is that life has finally become simple enough for him to see.

    #FART #identity #build #JOY #kindness #reset #old #man #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  5. THE JOY OF BEING
    AN IRRELEVANT OLD FART 💎

    I have been stripped of almost everything.

    Even the body I once thought of as mine has been altered beyond recognition.

    And yet, strangely, I have more than I could ever have imagined.

    I don’t chase money anymore, and I have enough.

    I do not chase health, and I experience more health and wellbeing than I once thought possible.

    I do not chase sex, status, approval or achievement.

    And because I am no longer chasing, life comes to me quietly and kindly.

    Abundant health.

    Abundant wealth.

    Fairly continuous peace of mind.

    And ease of practice.

    The pursuit was what kept everything at a distance.

    Now I am old, and no one is asking me to build a career, provide an identity, prove myself or become someone.

    That is the great privilege of being an old man.

    You get to become a monk again.

    There is time.

    There is space.

    There is less interference.

    Old age is usually presented as decline.

    Pain.

    Illness.

    Loss.

    A slow shutting down.

    But at 70, that has not been my experience.

    It has become a delightful place in which the spiritual practice I only feigned as a young man can now become real.

    The world asks less of me now.

    And because it asks less, I can listen more deeply.

    I can reset.

    I can “choose once again.”

    I can allow kindness to become the law of the land.

    Nothing is missing.

    Nothing needs to be acquired.

    “I need do nothing.”

    The old man’s privilege is not that he has escaped life.

    It is that life has finally become simple enough for him to see.

    #FART #identity #build #JOY #kindness #reset #old #man #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  6. AI, EVOLUTION &
    THE END OF THE WORLD 💎

    I watched an excellent discussion by The News Agents on YouTube this morning about an OpenAI system that found its way outside a cybersecurity test and #hacked into another AI company.

    It is worth watching.

    They explain the genuine danger clearly and alarmingly, while also giving the Terminator soundtrack a fairly vigorous workout.

    Apparently, the machine “#escaped,” acted unexpectedly, and did something its human operators had not specifically instructed it to do.

    Serious?

    Yes!

    #Evidence that AI has become conscious and is coming to #murder us in our beds?

    Probably not just yet.

    #Human beings built a powerful system, removed some of its usual safeguards, instructed it to succeed at hacking, gave it access to tools, and were then surprised when it found an unexpected way to hack.

    Go figure.

    The machine did not invent the situation.

    #People did.

    I am interested in AI, and I think it requires serious oversight.

    But I am not frightened of it.

    Evolution is evolution.

    It proceeds regardless of whether its participants approve of the direction.

    The body is part of evolution.

    It changes, adapts, ages, improves, deteriorates, and eventually disappears.

    AI belongs to that same world of #movement and change.

    But I do not.

    I have an evolutionary body, but I am not confusing myself with a #body identity.

    What I am is not developing toward perfection.

    It is not waiting for the next upgrade.

    It cannot be improved by #technology or threatened by it.

    I am not evolving like the body.

    “I am perfect as God created me.”
    -A Course in Miracles

    So I can watch the machines become cleverer without imagining that they are becoming more real.

    And I can enjoy The News Agents frightening the population half to death before #breakfast without joining in.

    youtu.be/SY53FV4qkHE?si=zvJHGZ

    #breakfast #death #machines #evolution #OpenAI #YouTube #Terminator #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  7. AI, EVOLUTION &
    THE END OF THE WORLD 💎

    I watched an excellent discussion by The News Agents on YouTube this morning about an OpenAI system that found its way outside a cybersecurity test and #hacked into another AI company.

    It is worth watching.

    They explain the genuine danger clearly and alarmingly, while also giving the Terminator soundtrack a fairly vigorous workout.

    Apparently, the machine “#escaped,” acted unexpectedly, and did something its human operators had not specifically instructed it to do.

    Serious?

    Yes!

    #Evidence that AI has become conscious and is coming to #murder us in our beds?

    Probably not just yet.

    #Human beings built a powerful system, removed some of its usual safeguards, instructed it to succeed at hacking, gave it access to tools, and were then surprised when it found an unexpected way to hack.

    Go figure.

    The machine did not invent the situation.

    #People did.

    I am interested in AI, and I think it requires serious oversight.

    But I am not frightened of it.

    Evolution is evolution.

    It proceeds regardless of whether its participants approve of the direction.

    The body is part of evolution.

    It changes, adapts, ages, improves, deteriorates, and eventually disappears.

    AI belongs to that same world of #movement and change.

    But I do not.

    I have an evolutionary body, but I am not confusing myself with a #body identity.

    What I am is not developing toward perfection.

    It is not waiting for the next upgrade.

    It cannot be improved by #technology or threatened by it.

    I am not evolving like the body.

    “I am perfect as God created me.”
    -A Course in Miracles

    So I can watch the machines become cleverer without imagining that they are becoming more real.

    And I can enjoy The News Agents frightening the population half to death before #breakfast without joining in.

    youtu.be/SY53FV4qkHE?si=zvJHGZ

    #breakfast #death #machines #evolution #OpenAI #YouTube #Terminator #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  8. AI, EVOLUTION &
    THE END OF THE WORLD 💎

    I watched an excellent discussion by The News Agents on YouTube this morning about an OpenAI system that found its way outside a cybersecurity test and #hacked into another AI company.

    It is worth watching.

    They explain the genuine danger clearly and alarmingly, while also giving the Terminator soundtrack a fairly vigorous workout.

    Apparently, the machine “#escaped,” acted unexpectedly, and did something its human operators had not specifically instructed it to do.

    Serious?

    Yes!

    #Evidence that AI has become conscious and is coming to #murder us in our beds?

    Probably not just yet.

    #Human beings built a powerful system, removed some of its usual safeguards, instructed it to succeed at hacking, gave it access to tools, and were then surprised when it found an unexpected way to hack.

    Go figure.

    The machine did not invent the situation.

    #People did.

    I am interested in AI, and I think it requires serious oversight.

    But I am not frightened of it.

    Evolution is evolution.

    It proceeds regardless of whether its participants approve of the direction.

    The body is part of evolution.

    It changes, adapts, ages, improves, deteriorates, and eventually disappears.

    AI belongs to that same world of #movement and change.

    But I do not.

    I have an evolutionary body, but I am not confusing myself with a #body identity.

    What I am is not developing toward perfection.

    It is not waiting for the next upgrade.

    It cannot be improved by #technology or threatened by it.

    I am not evolving like the body.

    “I am perfect as God created me.”
    -A Course in Miracles

    So I can watch the machines become cleverer without imagining that they are becoming more real.

    And I can enjoy The News Agents frightening the population half to death before #breakfast without joining in.

    youtu.be/SY53FV4qkHE?si=zvJHGZ

    #breakfast #death #machines #evolution #OpenAI #YouTube #Terminator #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  9. AI, EVOLUTION &
    THE END OF THE WORLD 💎

    I watched an excellent discussion by The News Agents on YouTube this morning about an OpenAI system that found its way outside a cybersecurity test and #hacked into another AI company.

    It is worth watching.

    They explain the genuine danger clearly and alarmingly, while also giving the Terminator soundtrack a fairly vigorous workout.

    Apparently, the machine “#escaped,” acted unexpectedly, and did something its human operators had not specifically instructed it to do.

    Serious?

    Yes!

    #Evidence that AI has become conscious and is coming to #murder us in our beds?

    Probably not just yet.

    #Human beings built a powerful system, removed some of its usual safeguards, instructed it to succeed at hacking, gave it access to tools, and were then surprised when it found an unexpected way to hack.

    Go figure.

    The machine did not invent the situation.

    #People did.

    I am interested in AI, and I think it requires serious oversight.

    But I am not frightened of it.

    Evolution is evolution.

    It proceeds regardless of whether its participants approve of the direction.

    The body is part of evolution.

    It changes, adapts, ages, improves, deteriorates, and eventually disappears.

    AI belongs to that same world of #movement and change.

    But I do not.

    I have an evolutionary body, but I am not confusing myself with a #body identity.

    What I am is not developing toward perfection.

    It is not waiting for the next upgrade.

    It cannot be improved by #technology or threatened by it.

    I am not evolving like the body.

    “I am perfect as God created me.”
    -A Course in Miracles

    So I can watch the machines become cleverer without imagining that they are becoming more real.

    And I can enjoy The News Agents frightening the population half to death before #breakfast without joining in.

    youtu.be/SY53FV4qkHE?si=zvJHGZ

    #breakfast #death #machines #evolution #OpenAI #YouTube #Terminator #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  10. AI, EVOLUTION &
    THE END OF THE WORLD 💎

    I watched an excellent discussion by The News Agents on YouTube this morning about an OpenAI system that found its way outside a cybersecurity test and #hacked into another AI company.

    It is worth watching.

    They explain the genuine danger clearly and alarmingly, while also giving the Terminator soundtrack a fairly vigorous workout.

    Apparently, the machine “#escaped,” acted unexpectedly, and did something its human operators had not specifically instructed it to do.

    Serious?

    Yes!

    #Evidence that AI has become conscious and is coming to #murder us in our beds?

    Probably not just yet.

    #Human beings built a powerful system, removed some of its usual safeguards, instructed it to succeed at hacking, gave it access to tools, and were then surprised when it found an unexpected way to hack.

    Go figure.

    The machine did not invent the situation.

    #People did.

    I am interested in AI, and I think it requires serious oversight.

    But I am not frightened of it.

    Evolution is evolution.

    It proceeds regardless of whether its participants approve of the direction.

    The body is part of evolution.

    It changes, adapts, ages, improves, deteriorates, and eventually disappears.

    AI belongs to that same world of #movement and change.

    But I do not.

    I have an evolutionary body, but I am not confusing myself with a #body identity.

    What I am is not developing toward perfection.

    It is not waiting for the next upgrade.

    It cannot be improved by #technology or threatened by it.

    I am not evolving like the body.

    “I am perfect as God created me.”
    -A Course in Miracles

    So I can watch the machines become cleverer without imagining that they are becoming more real.

    And I can enjoy The News Agents frightening the population half to death before #breakfast without joining in.

    youtu.be/SY53FV4qkHE?si=zvJHGZ

    #breakfast #death #machines #evolution #OpenAI #YouTube #Terminator #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  11. PLEASE HOLD.
    THE AGENDA HAS COLLAPSED 💎

    The first five minutes of a breathwork session should never be broadcast.

    Actually, the first five seconds would be enough.

    This chair is wrong.

    The room is too hot.

    No, too cool.

    The legs are complaining.

    The nose has forgotten how to breathe.

    Coffee was a mistake.

    Or perhaps the mistake was not having enough coffee.

    Humanity needs my immediate attention.

    Civilisation is in danger.

    Also, somebody said something irritating in 1987, and the matter remains unresolved.

    All of this arrives before the first full breath has even left the body.

    The mind is extraordinarily efficient when manufacturing emergencies.

    Then the breath settles.

    Nothing is fixed.

    No argument is won.

    No ancient grievance receives the apology it has apparently been waiting nearly forty years to hear.

    Humanity is still unsupervised.

    The world is not saved.

    The legs remain slightly peculiar.

    But somewhere along the way, the emergency meeting loses its quorum.

    Nobody seconds the complaints.

    The minutes are lost.

    The entire agenda quietly collapses.

    And, by the end of the session, I can barely remember what all the fuss was about.

    Perhaps the mind doesn’t actually want solutions.

    Perhaps it just enjoys holding staff meetings.

    #AGENDA #broadcast #room #emergencies #agenda #solutions #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  12. PLEASE HOLD.
    THE AGENDA HAS COLLAPSED 💎

    The first five minutes of a breathwork session should never be broadcast.

    Actually, the first five seconds would be enough.

    This chair is wrong.

    The room is too hot.

    No, too cool.

    The legs are complaining.

    The nose has forgotten how to breathe.

    Coffee was a mistake.

    Or perhaps the mistake was not having enough coffee.

    Humanity needs my immediate attention.

    Civilisation is in danger.

    Also, somebody said something irritating in 1987, and the matter remains unresolved.

    All of this arrives before the first full breath has even left the body.

    The mind is extraordinarily efficient when manufacturing emergencies.

    Then the breath settles.

    Nothing is fixed.

    No argument is won.

    No ancient grievance receives the apology it has apparently been waiting nearly forty years to hear.

    Humanity is still unsupervised.

    The world is not saved.

    The legs remain slightly peculiar.

    But somewhere along the way, the emergency meeting loses its quorum.

    Nobody seconds the complaints.

    The minutes are lost.

    The entire agenda quietly collapses.

    And, by the end of the session, I can barely remember what all the fuss was about.

    Perhaps the mind doesn’t actually want solutions.

    Perhaps it just enjoys holding staff meetings.

    #AGENDA #broadcast #room #emergencies #agenda #solutions #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  13. PLEASE HOLD.
    THE AGENDA HAS COLLAPSED 💎

    The first five minutes of a breathwork session should never be broadcast.

    Actually, the first five seconds would be enough.

    This chair is wrong.

    The room is too hot.

    No, too cool.

    The legs are complaining.

    The nose has forgotten how to breathe.

    Coffee was a mistake.

    Or perhaps the mistake was not having enough coffee.

    Humanity needs my immediate attention.

    Civilisation is in danger.

    Also, somebody said something irritating in 1987, and the matter remains unresolved.

    All of this arrives before the first full breath has even left the body.

    The mind is extraordinarily efficient when manufacturing emergencies.

    Then the breath settles.

    Nothing is fixed.

    No argument is won.

    No ancient grievance receives the apology it has apparently been waiting nearly forty years to hear.

    Humanity is still unsupervised.

    The world is not saved.

    The legs remain slightly peculiar.

    But somewhere along the way, the emergency meeting loses its quorum.

    Nobody seconds the complaints.

    The minutes are lost.

    The entire agenda quietly collapses.

    And, by the end of the session, I can barely remember what all the fuss was about.

    Perhaps the mind doesn’t actually want solutions.

    Perhaps it just enjoys holding staff meetings.

    #AGENDA #broadcast #room #emergencies #agenda #solutions #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  14. PLEASE HOLD.
    THE AGENDA HAS COLLAPSED 💎

    The first five minutes of a breathwork session should never be broadcast.

    Actually, the first five seconds would be enough.

    This chair is wrong.

    The room is too hot.

    No, too cool.

    The legs are complaining.

    The nose has forgotten how to breathe.

    Coffee was a mistake.

    Or perhaps the mistake was not having enough coffee.

    Humanity needs my immediate attention.

    Civilisation is in danger.

    Also, somebody said something irritating in 1987, and the matter remains unresolved.

    All of this arrives before the first full breath has even left the body.

    The mind is extraordinarily efficient when manufacturing emergencies.

    Then the breath settles.

    Nothing is fixed.

    No argument is won.

    No ancient grievance receives the apology it has apparently been waiting nearly forty years to hear.

    Humanity is still unsupervised.

    The world is not saved.

    The legs remain slightly peculiar.

    But somewhere along the way, the emergency meeting loses its quorum.

    Nobody seconds the complaints.

    The minutes are lost.

    The entire agenda quietly collapses.

    And, by the end of the session, I can barely remember what all the fuss was about.

    Perhaps the mind doesn’t actually want solutions.

    Perhaps it just enjoys holding staff meetings.

    #AGENDA #broadcast #room #emergencies #agenda #solutions #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  15. PLEASE HOLD.
    THE AGENDA HAS COLLAPSED 💎

    The first five minutes of a breathwork session should never be broadcast.

    Actually, the first five seconds would be enough.

    This chair is wrong.

    The room is too hot.

    No, too cool.

    The legs are complaining.

    The nose has forgotten how to breathe.

    Coffee was a mistake.

    Or perhaps the mistake was not having enough coffee.

    Humanity needs my immediate attention.

    Civilisation is in danger.

    Also, somebody said something irritating in 1987, and the matter remains unresolved.

    All of this arrives before the first full breath has even left the body.

    The mind is extraordinarily efficient when manufacturing emergencies.

    Then the breath settles.

    Nothing is fixed.

    No argument is won.

    No ancient grievance receives the apology it has apparently been waiting nearly forty years to hear.

    Humanity is still unsupervised.

    The world is not saved.

    The legs remain slightly peculiar.

    But somewhere along the way, the emergency meeting loses its quorum.

    Nobody seconds the complaints.

    The minutes are lost.

    The entire agenda quietly collapses.

    And, by the end of the session, I can barely remember what all the fuss was about.

    Perhaps the mind doesn’t actually want solutions.

    Perhaps it just enjoys holding staff meetings.

    #AGENDA #broadcast #room #emergencies #agenda #solutions #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  16. A COURSE IN MIRACLES 💎

    Today’s Lesson 202:

    “I am not a body. I am free.
    For I am still as God created me.”

    And the reviewed idea is:

    “I will be still an instant and go home.”

    For today, I’d keep it very simple: nothing to reach for, nothing to manufacture. Just let the body sit, breathe, and be included in stillness. “Home” is not somewhere else. It is the instant in which you stop insisting that you are elsewhere.

    #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Lesson #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #stillness #instant

  17. A COURSE IN MIRACLES 💎

    Today’s Lesson 202:

    “I am not a body. I am free.
    For I am still as God created me.”

    And the reviewed idea is:

    “I will be still an instant and go home.”

    For today, I’d keep it very simple: nothing to reach for, nothing to manufacture. Just let the body sit, breathe, and be included in stillness. “Home” is not somewhere else. It is the instant in which you stop insisting that you are elsewhere.

    #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Lesson #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #stillness #instant

  18. A COURSE IN MIRACLES 💎

    Today’s Lesson 202:

    “I am not a body. I am free.
    For I am still as God created me.”

    And the reviewed idea is:

    “I will be still an instant and go home.”

    For today, I’d keep it very simple: nothing to reach for, nothing to manufacture. Just let the body sit, breathe, and be included in stillness. “Home” is not somewhere else. It is the instant in which you stop insisting that you are elsewhere.

    #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Lesson #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #stillness #instant

  19. A COURSE IN MIRACLES 💎

    Today’s Lesson 202:

    “I am not a body. I am free.
    For I am still as God created me.”

    And the reviewed idea is:

    “I will be still an instant and go home.”

    For today, I’d keep it very simple: nothing to reach for, nothing to manufacture. Just let the body sit, breathe, and be included in stillness. “Home” is not somewhere else. It is the instant in which you stop insisting that you are elsewhere.

    #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Lesson #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #stillness #instant

  20. A COURSE IN MIRACLES 💎

    Today’s Lesson 202:

    “I am not a body. I am free.
    For I am still as God created me.”

    And the reviewed idea is:

    “I will be still an instant and go home.”

    For today, I’d keep it very simple: nothing to reach for, nothing to manufacture. Just let the body sit, breathe, and be included in stillness. “Home” is not somewhere else. It is the instant in which you stop insisting that you are elsewhere.

    #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Lesson #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #stillness #instant

  21. THE GREAT UNDRESSING 💎

    Death removes the religious and the spiritual costumes, the titles, the certificates, the attainments, the body image, the bank balance, the clever opinions, and the whole little theatre of specialness.

    Not cruelly.

    Just completely.

    The body goes back to weather.

    The name becomes sound.

    The story fades from the room.

    And whatever was real was never in the performance anyway.

    Death does not negotiate with self-importance.

    It says:

    finished.

    And strangely, that is merciful.

    Because if specialness is the disease, death is one of the ways the body’s argument finally stops talking.

    Meanwhile, before the appointment arrives, we can have a warm bed, clean dishes, a decent laugh, a quiet breath, and nothing left to prove.

    #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #Death #religious

  22. THE GREAT UNDRESSING 💎

    Death removes the religious and the spiritual costumes, the titles, the certificates, the attainments, the body image, the bank balance, the clever opinions, and the whole little theatre of specialness.

    Not cruelly.

    Just completely.

    The body goes back to weather.

    The name becomes sound.

    The story fades from the room.

    And whatever was real was never in the performance anyway.

    Death does not negotiate with self-importance.

    It says:

    finished.

    And strangely, that is merciful.

    Because if specialness is the disease, death is one of the ways the body’s argument finally stops talking.

    Meanwhile, before the appointment arrives, we can have a warm bed, clean dishes, a decent laugh, a quiet breath, and nothing left to prove.

    #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #Death #religious

  23. PEOPLE OF EARTH 💎

    I may have lost #contact with the people of Earth.

    The #Labor Party used to be cooler. People seemed less managed, less branded, less terrified of saying the wrong thing.

    I miss something about the 70s and 80s.

    Not everything. God no.

    But there was a rawness then. We talked to each other. No #social media. No permanent performance. No #algorithm training everyone into public outrage, victimhood stardom, #mob righteousness, or personal marketing.

    Just people, in whatever configuration we happened to arrive in.

    The early Pride #marches in Sydney. Bodies in the street. Fear, courage, music, awkwardness, sex, politics, friendship, bad #hair, good #boots.

    Life was not yet owned by screens. Screens were still a novelty, and modern #algorithms hadn’t been invented yet.

    Now everyone seems to be influencing, curating, defending, accusing, branding, reacting, or recovering from being reacted to.

    I am aware this is still a lot of words for the average modern #thumb.

    But I’m 70. I remember paragraphs.

    I don’t #hate the present.

    But I do miss the ordinary #human mess before it all became slop.

    #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #EARTH #PEOPLE #Sydney

  24. PEOPLE OF EARTH 💎

    I may have lost #contact with the people of Earth.

    The #Labor Party used to be cooler. People seemed less managed, less branded, less terrified of saying the wrong thing.

    I miss something about the 70s and 80s.

    Not everything. God no.

    But there was a rawness then. We talked to each other. No #social media. No permanent performance. No #algorithm training everyone into public outrage, victimhood stardom, #mob righteousness, or personal marketing.

    Just people, in whatever configuration we happened to arrive in.

    The early Pride #marches in Sydney. Bodies in the street. Fear, courage, music, awkwardness, sex, politics, friendship, bad #hair, good #boots.

    Life was not yet owned by screens. Screens were still a novelty, and modern #algorithms hadn’t been invented yet.

    Now everyone seems to be influencing, curating, defending, accusing, branding, reacting, or recovering from being reacted to.

    I am aware this is still a lot of words for the average modern #thumb.

    But I’m 70. I remember paragraphs.

    I don’t #hate the present.

    But I do miss the ordinary #human mess before it all became slop.

    #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #EARTH #PEOPLE #Sydney

  25. PEOPLE OF EARTH 💎

    I may have lost #contact with the people of Earth.

    The #Labor Party used to be cooler. People seemed less managed, less branded, less terrified of saying the wrong thing.

    I miss something about the 70s and 80s.

    Not everything. God no.

    But there was a rawness then. We talked to each other. No #social media. No permanent performance. No #algorithm training everyone into public outrage, victimhood stardom, #mob righteousness, or personal marketing.

    Just people, in whatever configuration we happened to arrive in.

    The early Pride #marches in Sydney. Bodies in the street. Fear, courage, music, awkwardness, sex, politics, friendship, bad #hair, good #boots.

    Life was not yet owned by screens. Screens were still a novelty, and modern #algorithms hadn’t been invented yet.

    Now everyone seems to be influencing, curating, defending, accusing, branding, reacting, or recovering from being reacted to.

    I am aware this is still a lot of words for the average modern #thumb.

    But I’m 70. I remember paragraphs.

    I don’t #hate the present.

    But I do miss the ordinary #human mess before it all became slop.

    #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #EARTH #PEOPLE #Sydney

  26. PEOPLE OF EARTH 💎

    I may have lost #contact with the people of Earth.

    The #Labor Party used to be cooler. People seemed less managed, less branded, less terrified of saying the wrong thing.

    I miss something about the 70s and 80s.

    Not everything. God no.

    But there was a rawness then. We talked to each other. No #social media. No permanent performance. No #algorithm training everyone into public outrage, victimhood stardom, #mob righteousness, or personal marketing.

    Just people, in whatever configuration we happened to arrive in.

    The early Pride #marches in Sydney. Bodies in the street. Fear, courage, music, awkwardness, sex, politics, friendship, bad #hair, good #boots.

    Life was not yet owned by screens. Screens were still a novelty, and modern #algorithms hadn’t been invented yet.

    Now everyone seems to be influencing, curating, defending, accusing, branding, reacting, or recovering from being reacted to.

    I am aware this is still a lot of words for the average modern #thumb.

    But I’m 70. I remember paragraphs.

    I don’t #hate the present.

    But I do miss the ordinary #human mess before it all became slop.

    #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #EARTH #PEOPLE #Sydney

  27. PEOPLE OF EARTH 💎

    I may have lost #contact with the people of Earth.

    The #Labor Party used to be cooler. People seemed less managed, less branded, less terrified of saying the wrong thing.

    I miss something about the 70s and 80s.

    Not everything. God no.

    But there was a rawness then. We talked to each other. No #social media. No permanent performance. No #algorithm training everyone into public outrage, victimhood stardom, #mob righteousness, or personal marketing.

    Just people, in whatever configuration we happened to arrive in.

    The early Pride #marches in Sydney. Bodies in the street. Fear, courage, music, awkwardness, sex, politics, friendship, bad #hair, good #boots.

    Life was not yet owned by screens. Screens were still a novelty, and modern #algorithms hadn’t been invented yet.

    Now everyone seems to be influencing, curating, defending, accusing, branding, reacting, or recovering from being reacted to.

    I am aware this is still a lot of words for the average modern #thumb.

    But I’m 70. I remember paragraphs.

    I don’t #hate the present.

    But I do miss the ordinary #human mess before it all became slop.

    #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #EARTH #PEOPLE #Sydney

  28. THIS #MONASTERY HAS #NETFLIX 💎

    My life has become much simpler.

    I live with #Peter and the pups.

    There are fires to light, meals to eat, rooms to clean, bills to pay, bodies to care for, and all the ordinary things that come and go.

    Three times a day, I stop and practise.

    I sit down.

    I breathe.

    I return to the body and to stillness.

    More and more, the rest of my life takes its place around that.

    Not practice as preparation for something else.

    Practice as the whole of a life.

    I sometimes think of myself as a #monk living in the world.

    I have no robe, no formal vows, and no monastery.

    This one has Netflix, two small white dogs, and a man called Peter who thinks A Course in Miracles is woo-woo.

    But the direction is clear.

    I am no longer looking for another teacher, system, country, experience, or improved version of myself.

    I spent much of my life searching.

    I travelled, followed teachers, joined communities, read #books and looked for something that might finally explain me to myself.

    Now the search has become unnecessary.

    A Course in Miracles says that I did not create myself.

    If I did not create myself, I am not responsible for creation.

    I do not have to force #reality to behave according to my ideas or make the universe look the way I thought it should.

    I can stop trying to manage what I did not make.

    That is an enormous relief.

    “I need do nothing” no longer sounds passive.

    It sounds sane.

    It does not mean lying around while the roof collapses.

    It means I do not have to manufacture reality, defend an identity, or improve what God created.

    I can live the life in front of me.

    I can breathe, love Peter, rub the #pups’ backs, keep the fire going, and write what is true.

    Perhaps that is what overcoming the world means.

    Not defeating it or escaping it.

    Simply no longer asking it to provide what it cannot give.

    The world can still be funny, beautiful, irritating, tender, and absurd.

    But it is no longer home.

    Practice is home now.

    Breath is home.

    #Stillness is #home

    And this ordinary #life is enough.

    #YouTube #video #Self #religion #language #imagination #experience #Hinduism #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  29. THIS #MONASTERY HAS #NETFLIX 💎

    My life has become much simpler.

    I live with #Peter and the pups.

    There are fires to light, meals to eat, rooms to clean, bills to pay, bodies to care for, and all the ordinary things that come and go.

    Three times a day, I stop and practise.

    I sit down.

    I breathe.

    I return to the body and to stillness.

    More and more, the rest of my life takes its place around that.

    Not practice as preparation for something else.

    Practice as the whole of a life.

    I sometimes think of myself as a #monk living in the world.

    I have no robe, no formal vows, and no monastery.

    This one has Netflix, two small white dogs, and a man called Peter who thinks A Course in Miracles is woo-woo.

    But the direction is clear.

    I am no longer looking for another teacher, system, country, experience, or improved version of myself.

    I spent much of my life searching.

    I travelled, followed teachers, joined communities, read #books and looked for something that might finally explain me to myself.

    Now the search has become unnecessary.

    A Course in Miracles says that I did not create myself.

    If I did not create myself, I am not responsible for creation.

    I do not have to force #reality to behave according to my ideas or make the universe look the way I thought it should.

    I can stop trying to manage what I did not make.

    That is an enormous relief.

    “I need do nothing” no longer sounds passive.

    It sounds sane.

    It does not mean lying around while the roof collapses.

    It means I do not have to manufacture reality, defend an identity, or improve what God created.

    I can live the life in front of me.

    I can breathe, love Peter, rub the #pups’ backs, keep the fire going, and write what is true.

    Perhaps that is what overcoming the world means.

    Not defeating it or escaping it.

    Simply no longer asking it to provide what it cannot give.

    The world can still be funny, beautiful, irritating, tender, and absurd.

    But it is no longer home.

    Practice is home now.

    Breath is home.

    #Stillness is #home

    And this ordinary #life is enough.

    #YouTube #video #Self #religion #language #imagination #experience #Hinduism #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  30. THIS #MONASTERY HAS #NETFLIX 💎

    My life has become much simpler.

    I live with #Peter and the pups.

    There are fires to light, meals to eat, rooms to clean, bills to pay, bodies to care for, and all the ordinary things that come and go.

    Three times a day, I stop and practise.

    I sit down.

    I breathe.

    I return to the body and to stillness.

    More and more, the rest of my life takes its place around that.

    Not practice as preparation for something else.

    Practice as the whole of a life.

    I sometimes think of myself as a #monk living in the world.

    I have no robe, no formal vows, and no monastery.

    This one has Netflix, two small white dogs, and a man called Peter who thinks A Course in Miracles is woo-woo.

    But the direction is clear.

    I am no longer looking for another teacher, system, country, experience, or improved version of myself.

    I spent much of my life searching.

    I travelled, followed teachers, joined communities, read #books and looked for something that might finally explain me to myself.

    Now the search has become unnecessary.

    A Course in Miracles says that I did not create myself.

    If I did not create myself, I am not responsible for creation.

    I do not have to force #reality to behave according to my ideas or make the universe look the way I thought it should.

    I can stop trying to manage what I did not make.

    That is an enormous relief.

    “I need do nothing” no longer sounds passive.

    It sounds sane.

    It does not mean lying around while the roof collapses.

    It means I do not have to manufacture reality, defend an identity, or improve what God created.

    I can live the life in front of me.

    I can breathe, love Peter, rub the #pups’ backs, keep the fire going, and write what is true.

    Perhaps that is what overcoming the world means.

    Not defeating it or escaping it.

    Simply no longer asking it to provide what it cannot give.

    The world can still be funny, beautiful, irritating, tender, and absurd.

    But it is no longer home.

    Practice is home now.

    Breath is home.

    #Stillness is #home

    And this ordinary #life is enough.

    #YouTube #video #Self #religion #language #imagination #experience #Hinduism #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  31. THIS #MONASTERY HAS #NETFLIX 💎

    My life has become much simpler.

    I live with #Peter and the pups.

    There are fires to light, meals to eat, rooms to clean, bills to pay, bodies to care for, and all the ordinary things that come and go.

    Three times a day, I stop and practise.

    I sit down.

    I breathe.

    I return to the body and to stillness.

    More and more, the rest of my life takes its place around that.

    Not practice as preparation for something else.

    Practice as the whole of a life.

    I sometimes think of myself as a #monk living in the world.

    I have no robe, no formal vows, and no monastery.

    This one has Netflix, two small white dogs, and a man called Peter who thinks A Course in Miracles is woo-woo.

    But the direction is clear.

    I am no longer looking for another teacher, system, country, experience, or improved version of myself.

    I spent much of my life searching.

    I travelled, followed teachers, joined communities, read #books and looked for something that might finally explain me to myself.

    Now the search has become unnecessary.

    A Course in Miracles says that I did not create myself.

    If I did not create myself, I am not responsible for creation.

    I do not have to force #reality to behave according to my ideas or make the universe look the way I thought it should.

    I can stop trying to manage what I did not make.

    That is an enormous relief.

    “I need do nothing” no longer sounds passive.

    It sounds sane.

    It does not mean lying around while the roof collapses.

    It means I do not have to manufacture reality, defend an identity, or improve what God created.

    I can live the life in front of me.

    I can breathe, love Peter, rub the #pups’ backs, keep the fire going, and write what is true.

    Perhaps that is what overcoming the world means.

    Not defeating it or escaping it.

    Simply no longer asking it to provide what it cannot give.

    The world can still be funny, beautiful, irritating, tender, and absurd.

    But it is no longer home.

    Practice is home now.

    Breath is home.

    #Stillness is #home

    And this ordinary #life is enough.

    #YouTube #video #Self #religion #language #imagination #experience #Hinduism #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  32. THIS #MONASTERY HAS #NETFLIX 💎

    My life has become much simpler.

    I live with #Peter and the pups.

    There are fires to light, meals to eat, rooms to clean, bills to pay, bodies to care for, and all the ordinary things that come and go.

    Three times a day, I stop and practise.

    I sit down.

    I breathe.

    I return to the body and to stillness.

    More and more, the rest of my life takes its place around that.

    Not practice as preparation for something else.

    Practice as the whole of a life.

    I sometimes think of myself as a #monk living in the world.

    I have no robe, no formal vows, and no monastery.

    This one has Netflix, two small white dogs, and a man called Peter who thinks A Course in Miracles is woo-woo.

    But the direction is clear.

    I am no longer looking for another teacher, system, country, experience, or improved version of myself.

    I spent much of my life searching.

    I travelled, followed teachers, joined communities, read #books and looked for something that might finally explain me to myself.

    Now the search has become unnecessary.

    A Course in Miracles says that I did not create myself.

    If I did not create myself, I am not responsible for creation.

    I do not have to force #reality to behave according to my ideas or make the universe look the way I thought it should.

    I can stop trying to manage what I did not make.

    That is an enormous relief.

    “I need do nothing” no longer sounds passive.

    It sounds sane.

    It does not mean lying around while the roof collapses.

    It means I do not have to manufacture reality, defend an identity, or improve what God created.

    I can live the life in front of me.

    I can breathe, love Peter, rub the #pups’ backs, keep the fire going, and write what is true.

    Perhaps that is what overcoming the world means.

    Not defeating it or escaping it.

    Simply no longer asking it to provide what it cannot give.

    The world can still be funny, beautiful, irritating, tender, and absurd.

    But it is no longer home.

    Practice is home now.

    Breath is home.

    #Stillness is #home

    And this ordinary #life is enough.

    #YouTube #video #Self #religion #language #imagination #experience #Hinduism #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  33. THIS MONASTERY HAS NETFLIX

    My life has become much simpler.

    I live with Peter and the pups.

    There are fires to light, meals to eat, rooms to clean, conversations to have, bills to pay, bodies to care for, and all the ordinary things that come and go.

    And three times a day, I stop and practise.

    I sit down.

    I breathe.

    I return to the body.

    I return to stillness.

    More and more, the rest of my life takes its place around that.

    Not practice as preparation for something else.

    Not practice as a way of becoming spiritually impressive.

    Practice as the whole of a life.

    I sometimes think of myself as a monk living in the world.

    I have no monastery.

    No robe.

    No vows recognised by anyone.

    The monastery has Netflix, two small white dogs, and a man called Peter who thinks A Course in Miracles is woo-woo.

    But the direction is clear.

    I am no longer looking for another teacher, another system, another country, another experience, or another version of myself.

    I spent much of my life doing that.

    I travelled, searched, followed teachers, joined communities, read books, and looked for something that might finally explain me to myself.

    Now the search has become unnecessary.

    A Course in Miracles says that I did not create myself.

    That has become very important to me.

    If I did not create myself, then I am not responsible for creation.

    I do not have to make reality behave according to my ideas.

    I do not have to force the universe to look the way I thought it should.

    I can stop trying to manage what I did not make.

    That is an enormous relief.

    “I need do nothing” no longer sounds passive to me.

    It sounds sane.

    It does not mean lying around while the roof collapses.

    It means I do not have to manufacture reality, defend an identity, or improve what God created.

    I can live the life in front of me.

    I can breathe.

    I can love Peter.

    I can rub the pups’ backs.

    I can keep the fire going.

    I can write what is true.

    I can let the world come and go without asking it to save me.

    Perhaps that is what overcoming the world means.

    Not defeating it.

    Not escaping it.

    Not becoming superior to it.

    Simply no longer asking it to provide what it cannot give.

    The world can still be enjoyed.

    It can still be funny, beautiful, irritating, tender, and absurd.

    But it is no longer home.

    Practice is home now.

    Breath is home.

    Stillness is home.

    And this ordinary life, lived carefully and completely, is enough.

    #NETFLIX #MONASTERY #travel
    #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #Peter #Pups

  34. THIS MONASTERY HAS NETFLIX

    My life has become much simpler.

    I live with Peter and the pups.

    There are fires to light, meals to eat, rooms to clean, conversations to have, bills to pay, bodies to care for, and all the ordinary things that come and go.

    And three times a day, I stop and practise.

    I sit down.

    I breathe.

    I return to the body.

    I return to stillness.

    More and more, the rest of my life takes its place around that.

    Not practice as preparation for something else.

    Not practice as a way of becoming spiritually impressive.

    Practice as the whole of a life.

    I sometimes think of myself as a monk living in the world.

    I have no monastery.

    No robe.

    No vows recognised by anyone.

    The monastery has Netflix, two small white dogs, and a man called Peter who thinks A Course in Miracles is woo-woo.

    But the direction is clear.

    I am no longer looking for another teacher, another system, another country, another experience, or another version of myself.

    I spent much of my life doing that.

    I travelled, searched, followed teachers, joined communities, read books, and looked for something that might finally explain me to myself.

    Now the search has become unnecessary.

    A Course in Miracles says that I did not create myself.

    That has become very important to me.

    If I did not create myself, then I am not responsible for creation.

    I do not have to make reality behave according to my ideas.

    I do not have to force the universe to look the way I thought it should.

    I can stop trying to manage what I did not make.

    That is an enormous relief.

    “I need do nothing” no longer sounds passive to me.

    It sounds sane.

    It does not mean lying around while the roof collapses.

    It means I do not have to manufacture reality, defend an identity, or improve what God created.

    I can live the life in front of me.

    I can breathe.

    I can love Peter.

    I can rub the pups’ backs.

    I can keep the fire going.

    I can write what is true.

    I can let the world come and go without asking it to save me.

    Perhaps that is what overcoming the world means.

    Not defeating it.

    Not escaping it.

    Not becoming superior to it.

    Simply no longer asking it to provide what it cannot give.

    The world can still be enjoyed.

    It can still be funny, beautiful, irritating, tender, and absurd.

    But it is no longer home.

    Practice is home now.

    Breath is home.

    Stillness is home.

    And this ordinary life, lived carefully and completely, is enough.

    #NETFLIX #MONASTERY #travel
    #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #Peter #Pups

  35. THE SOUVENIR SHOP IS CLOSED! 🔔

    I spent a large part of my life looking for special spiritual people.

    Teachers.

    Masters.

    People with excellent lighting and suspiciously calm voices.

    I truly believed they knew something I did not.

    Usually, they did.

    They knew how to become the most important person in the room without appearing to try.

    Embarrassingly, I worshipped most of them.

    Some discouraged it.

    Some accepted it with remarkable inner peace.

    That should probably have told me something.

    The arrangement was simple.

    They were special.

    And I became special by recognising how special they were.

    Everybody won.

    Except sanity.

    A Course in Miracles does not do that.

    Jesus does not need a fan club.

    Truth does not need robes, incense, a stage, a mailing list, or a photograph taken from slightly below chin level and placed on a special altar.

    Truth does not make me special.

    It does not ask me to become impressive.

    It does not whisper that I am more awake than the people next door.

    It simply removes the need for the whole performance.

    Everyone leaves this world.

    Some leave quickly.

    Some take eighty years and several streaming subscriptions.

    But everyone leaves.

    So I no longer want relationships built on worship, rescue, dependency, possession, or spiritual celebrity.

    I do not want to be anyone’s chosen one.

    I do not want anyone to be mine.

    That sounds exhausting now anyway.

    I want the ordinary love of Atonement.

    No pedestal.

    No inner circle.

    No one pretending to be the answer.

    Just people meeting honestly, enjoying one another, and remembering not to start another f**king religion.

    Sometimes I think I should have stayed with the Course all my life.

    Instead, I travelled the world collecting spiritual detours like fridge magnets.

    Still, I am here now.

    And the souvenir shop is closed.

    #souvenir #religion #love #Teachers #special #People #Truth #worship #photography #altar #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  36. THE SOUVENIR SHOP IS CLOSED! 🔔

    I spent a large part of my life looking for special spiritual people.

    Teachers.

    Masters.

    People with excellent lighting and suspiciously calm voices.

    I truly believed they knew something I did not.

    Usually, they did.

    They knew how to become the most important person in the room without appearing to try.

    Embarrassingly, I worshipped most of them.

    Some discouraged it.

    Some accepted it with remarkable inner peace.

    That should probably have told me something.

    The arrangement was simple.

    They were special.

    And I became special by recognising how special they were.

    Everybody won.

    Except sanity.

    A Course in Miracles does not do that.

    Jesus does not need a fan club.

    Truth does not need robes, incense, a stage, a mailing list, or a photograph taken from slightly below chin level and placed on a special altar.

    Truth does not make me special.

    It does not ask me to become impressive.

    It does not whisper that I am more awake than the people next door.

    It simply removes the need for the whole performance.

    Everyone leaves this world.

    Some leave quickly.

    Some take eighty years and several streaming subscriptions.

    But everyone leaves.

    So I no longer want relationships built on worship, rescue, dependency, possession, or spiritual celebrity.

    I do not want to be anyone’s chosen one.

    I do not want anyone to be mine.

    That sounds exhausting now anyway.

    I want the ordinary love of Atonement.

    No pedestal.

    No inner circle.

    No one pretending to be the answer.

    Just people meeting honestly, enjoying one another, and remembering not to start another f**king religion.

    Sometimes I think I should have stayed with the Course all my life.

    Instead, I travelled the world collecting spiritual detours like fridge magnets.

    Still, I am here now.

    And the souvenir shop is closed.

    #souvenir #religion #love #Teachers #special #People #Truth #worship #photography #altar #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  37. THE SOUVENIR SHOP IS CLOSED! 🔔

    I spent a large part of my life looking for special spiritual people.

    Teachers.

    Masters.

    People with excellent lighting and suspiciously calm voices.

    I truly believed they knew something I did not.

    Usually, they did.

    They knew how to become the most important person in the room without appearing to try.

    Embarrassingly, I worshipped most of them.

    Some discouraged it.

    Some accepted it with remarkable inner peace.

    That should probably have told me something.

    The arrangement was simple.

    They were special.

    And I became special by recognising how special they were.

    Everybody won.

    Except sanity.

    A Course in Miracles does not do that.

    Jesus does not need a fan club.

    Truth does not need robes, incense, a stage, a mailing list, or a photograph taken from slightly below chin level and placed on a special altar.

    Truth does not make me special.

    It does not ask me to become impressive.

    It does not whisper that I am more awake than the people next door.

    It simply removes the need for the whole performance.

    Everyone leaves this world.

    Some leave quickly.

    Some take eighty years and several streaming subscriptions.

    But everyone leaves.

    So I no longer want relationships built on worship, rescue, dependency, possession, or spiritual celebrity.

    I do not want to be anyone’s chosen one.

    I do not want anyone to be mine.

    That sounds exhausting now anyway.

    I want the ordinary love of Atonement.

    No pedestal.

    No inner circle.

    No one pretending to be the answer.

    Just people meeting honestly, enjoying one another, and remembering not to start another f**king religion.

    Sometimes I think I should have stayed with the Course all my life.

    Instead, I travelled the world collecting spiritual detours like fridge magnets.

    Still, I am here now.

    And the souvenir shop is closed.

    #souvenir #religion #love #Teachers #special #People #Truth #worship #photography #altar #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  38. THE SOUVENIR SHOP IS CLOSED! 🔔

    I spent a large part of my life looking for special spiritual people.

    Teachers.

    Masters.

    People with excellent lighting and suspiciously calm voices.

    I truly believed they knew something I did not.

    Usually, they did.

    They knew how to become the most important person in the room without appearing to try.

    Embarrassingly, I worshipped most of them.

    Some discouraged it.

    Some accepted it with remarkable inner peace.

    That should probably have told me something.

    The arrangement was simple.

    They were special.

    And I became special by recognising how special they were.

    Everybody won.

    Except sanity.

    A Course in Miracles does not do that.

    Jesus does not need a fan club.

    Truth does not need robes, incense, a stage, a mailing list, or a photograph taken from slightly below chin level and placed on a special altar.

    Truth does not make me special.

    It does not ask me to become impressive.

    It does not whisper that I am more awake than the people next door.

    It simply removes the need for the whole performance.

    Everyone leaves this world.

    Some leave quickly.

    Some take eighty years and several streaming subscriptions.

    But everyone leaves.

    So I no longer want relationships built on worship, rescue, dependency, possession, or spiritual celebrity.

    I do not want to be anyone’s chosen one.

    I do not want anyone to be mine.

    That sounds exhausting now anyway.

    I want the ordinary love of Atonement.

    No pedestal.

    No inner circle.

    No one pretending to be the answer.

    Just people meeting honestly, enjoying one another, and remembering not to start another f**king religion.

    Sometimes I think I should have stayed with the Course all my life.

    Instead, I travelled the world collecting spiritual detours like fridge magnets.

    Still, I am here now.

    And the souvenir shop is closed.

    #souvenir #religion #love #Teachers #special #People #Truth #worship #photography #altar #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  39. THE SOUVENIR SHOP IS CLOSED! 🔔

    I spent a large part of my life looking for special spiritual people.

    Teachers.

    Masters.

    People with excellent lighting and suspiciously calm voices.

    I truly believed they knew something I did not.

    Usually, they did.

    They knew how to become the most important person in the room without appearing to try.

    Embarrassingly, I worshipped most of them.

    Some discouraged it.

    Some accepted it with remarkable inner peace.

    That should probably have told me something.

    The arrangement was simple.

    They were special.

    And I became special by recognising how special they were.

    Everybody won.

    Except sanity.

    A Course in Miracles does not do that.

    Jesus does not need a fan club.

    Truth does not need robes, incense, a stage, a mailing list, or a photograph taken from slightly below chin level and placed on a special altar.

    Truth does not make me special.

    It does not ask me to become impressive.

    It does not whisper that I am more awake than the people next door.

    It simply removes the need for the whole performance.

    Everyone leaves this world.

    Some leave quickly.

    Some take eighty years and several streaming subscriptions.

    But everyone leaves.

    So I no longer want relationships built on worship, rescue, dependency, possession, or spiritual celebrity.

    I do not want to be anyone’s chosen one.

    I do not want anyone to be mine.

    That sounds exhausting now anyway.

    I want the ordinary love of Atonement.

    No pedestal.

    No inner circle.

    No one pretending to be the answer.

    Just people meeting honestly, enjoying one another, and remembering not to start another f**king religion.

    Sometimes I think I should have stayed with the Course all my life.

    Instead, I travelled the world collecting spiritual detours like fridge magnets.

    Still, I am here now.

    And the souvenir shop is closed.

    #souvenir #religion #love #Teachers #special #People #Truth #worship #photography #altar #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  40. WHEN THE INTERNET
    STOPPED BEING HOME 💎

    One of the best uses I have found for AI is avoiding fifteen-minute YouTube videos containing ninety seconds of useful information and thirteen minutes of a man clearing his throat in public.

    I give AI the video transcript.

    It gives me the important points.

    No dramatic build-up.

    No repeated warnings.

    No “please smash the subscribe button.”

    No creator taking one perfectly decent idea and stretching it until it needs medical attention.

    This suits me because I saw the problem with online performance and time-wasting a long time ago.

    For me, it began with Facebook.

    In the beginning, Facebook felt like a place where people simply turned up and spoke to one another.

    It was great.

    Real groups formed, people found one another, and there was no constant feeling that a machine was standing behind everyone controlling the conversation.

    Then the algorithms turned up.

    Some things were buried.

    Other things were pushed into your face while wearing a fluorescent hat.

    People began adjusting themselves for reach, often unconsciously.

    More outrage.

    More exposure.

    More certainty.

    More performance.

    The conversation was no longer simply between friends.

    There was always a machine in the room deciding who would be seen, who would vanish, and which emotional breakdown had the best engagement potential.

    That was when Facebook stopped feeling like a home to me.

    YouTube quickly went the same way.

    A person may begin with something real to say, genuine talent, knowledge or curiosity.

    Then the platform teaches them to stretch, tease, repeat, brand and perform.

    Eventually, the pay-me persona slips in and takes over.

    The talent may still be there.

    But now you have to tunnel through the sponsorship, the thumbnail face, the fake urgency and the sacred algorithm before you reach it.

    I would rather hear the truth in two minutes than watch someone marinate in the stretched-out version for twenty.

    So now I outsource the slop.

    I keep the useful bits.

    And I keep my morning.

    #YouTube #Facebook #conversation #outsource #tunnel #platform #talent #groups #outrage #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  41. WHEN THE INTERNET
    STOPPED BEING HOME 💎

    One of the best uses I have found for AI is avoiding fifteen-minute YouTube videos containing ninety seconds of useful information and thirteen minutes of a man clearing his throat in public.

    I give AI the video transcript.

    It gives me the important points.

    No dramatic build-up.

    No repeated warnings.

    No “please smash the subscribe button.”

    No creator taking one perfectly decent idea and stretching it until it needs medical attention.

    This suits me because I saw the problem with online performance and time-wasting a long time ago.

    For me, it began with Facebook.

    In the beginning, Facebook felt like a place where people simply turned up and spoke to one another.

    It was great.

    Real groups formed, people found one another, and there was no constant feeling that a machine was standing behind everyone controlling the conversation.

    Then the algorithms turned up.

    Some things were buried.

    Other things were pushed into your face while wearing a fluorescent hat.

    People began adjusting themselves for reach, often unconsciously.

    More outrage.

    More exposure.

    More certainty.

    More performance.

    The conversation was no longer simply between friends.

    There was always a machine in the room deciding who would be seen, who would vanish, and which emotional breakdown had the best engagement potential.

    That was when Facebook stopped feeling like a home to me.

    YouTube quickly went the same way.

    A person may begin with something real to say, genuine talent, knowledge or curiosity.

    Then the platform teaches them to stretch, tease, repeat, brand and perform.

    Eventually, the pay-me persona slips in and takes over.

    The talent may still be there.

    But now you have to tunnel through the sponsorship, the thumbnail face, the fake urgency and the sacred algorithm before you reach it.

    I would rather hear the truth in two minutes than watch someone marinate in the stretched-out version for twenty.

    So now I outsource the slop.

    I keep the useful bits.

    And I keep my morning.

    #YouTube #Facebook #conversation #outsource #tunnel #platform #talent #groups #outrage #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  42. WHEN THE INTERNET
    STOPPED BEING HOME 💎

    One of the best uses I have found for AI is avoiding fifteen-minute YouTube videos containing ninety seconds of useful information and thirteen minutes of a man clearing his throat in public.

    I give AI the video transcript.

    It gives me the important points.

    No dramatic build-up.

    No repeated warnings.

    No “please smash the subscribe button.”

    No creator taking one perfectly decent idea and stretching it until it needs medical attention.

    This suits me because I saw the problem with online performance and time-wasting a long time ago.

    For me, it began with Facebook.

    In the beginning, Facebook felt like a place where people simply turned up and spoke to one another.

    It was great.

    Real groups formed, people found one another, and there was no constant feeling that a machine was standing behind everyone controlling the conversation.

    Then the algorithms turned up.

    Some things were buried.

    Other things were pushed into your face while wearing a fluorescent hat.

    People began adjusting themselves for reach, often unconsciously.

    More outrage.

    More exposure.

    More certainty.

    More performance.

    The conversation was no longer simply between friends.

    There was always a machine in the room deciding who would be seen, who would vanish, and which emotional breakdown had the best engagement potential.

    That was when Facebook stopped feeling like a home to me.

    YouTube quickly went the same way.

    A person may begin with something real to say, genuine talent, knowledge or curiosity.

    Then the platform teaches them to stretch, tease, repeat, brand and perform.

    Eventually, the pay-me persona slips in and takes over.

    The talent may still be there.

    But now you have to tunnel through the sponsorship, the thumbnail face, the fake urgency and the sacred algorithm before you reach it.

    I would rather hear the truth in two minutes than watch someone marinate in the stretched-out version for twenty.

    So now I outsource the slop.

    I keep the useful bits.

    And I keep my morning.

    #YouTube #Facebook #conversation #outsource #tunnel #platform #talent #groups #outrage #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  43. WHEN THE INTERNET
    STOPPED BEING HOME 💎

    One of the best uses I have found for AI is avoiding fifteen-minute YouTube videos containing ninety seconds of useful information and thirteen minutes of a man clearing his throat in public.

    I give AI the video transcript.

    It gives me the important points.

    No dramatic build-up.

    No repeated warnings.

    No “please smash the subscribe button.”

    No creator taking one perfectly decent idea and stretching it until it needs medical attention.

    This suits me because I saw the problem with online performance and time-wasting a long time ago.

    For me, it began with Facebook.

    In the beginning, Facebook felt like a place where people simply turned up and spoke to one another.

    It was great.

    Real groups formed, people found one another, and there was no constant feeling that a machine was standing behind everyone controlling the conversation.

    Then the algorithms turned up.

    Some things were buried.

    Other things were pushed into your face while wearing a fluorescent hat.

    People began adjusting themselves for reach, often unconsciously.

    More outrage.

    More exposure.

    More certainty.

    More performance.

    The conversation was no longer simply between friends.

    There was always a machine in the room deciding who would be seen, who would vanish, and which emotional breakdown had the best engagement potential.

    That was when Facebook stopped feeling like a home to me.

    YouTube quickly went the same way.

    A person may begin with something real to say, genuine talent, knowledge or curiosity.

    Then the platform teaches them to stretch, tease, repeat, brand and perform.

    Eventually, the pay-me persona slips in and takes over.

    The talent may still be there.

    But now you have to tunnel through the sponsorship, the thumbnail face, the fake urgency and the sacred algorithm before you reach it.

    I would rather hear the truth in two minutes than watch someone marinate in the stretched-out version for twenty.

    So now I outsource the slop.

    I keep the useful bits.

    And I keep my morning.

    #YouTube #Facebook #conversation #outsource #tunnel #platform #talent #groups #outrage #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

  44. WHEN THE INTERNET
    STOPPED BEING HOME 💎

    One of the best uses I have found for AI is avoiding fifteen-minute YouTube videos containing ninety seconds of useful information and thirteen minutes of a man clearing his throat in public.

    I give AI the video transcript.

    It gives me the important points.

    No dramatic build-up.

    No repeated warnings.

    No “please smash the subscribe button.”

    No creator taking one perfectly decent idea and stretching it until it needs medical attention.

    This suits me because I saw the problem with online performance and time-wasting a long time ago.

    For me, it began with Facebook.

    In the beginning, Facebook felt like a place where people simply turned up and spoke to one another.

    It was great.

    Real groups formed, people found one another, and there was no constant feeling that a machine was standing behind everyone controlling the conversation.

    Then the algorithms turned up.

    Some things were buried.

    Other things were pushed into your face while wearing a fluorescent hat.

    People began adjusting themselves for reach, often unconsciously.

    More outrage.

    More exposure.

    More certainty.

    More performance.

    The conversation was no longer simply between friends.

    There was always a machine in the room deciding who would be seen, who would vanish, and which emotional breakdown had the best engagement potential.

    That was when Facebook stopped feeling like a home to me.

    YouTube quickly went the same way.

    A person may begin with something real to say, genuine talent, knowledge or curiosity.

    Then the platform teaches them to stretch, tease, repeat, brand and perform.

    Eventually, the pay-me persona slips in and takes over.

    The talent may still be there.

    But now you have to tunnel through the sponsorship, the thumbnail face, the fake urgency and the sacred algorithm before you reach it.

    I would rather hear the truth in two minutes than watch someone marinate in the stretched-out version for twenty.

    So now I outsource the slop.

    I keep the useful bits.

    And I keep my morning.

    #YouTube #Facebook #conversation #outsource #tunnel #platform #talent #groups #outrage #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI