Writings

  • The Necessary Beginning Point

    Today’s arising reflective point: the seeming difficulty of asking questions, even burning questions, in such a way that an answer might be given without me having to climb over obstacles that the form of the question puts in the way. This is a recurrent difficulty. I am astonished how decent, intelligent posters seem unable to…

    The Necessary Beginning Point
  • Silence Is Not Silent

    Understanding looks at how an event comes into being.Knowing looks towards what already exists. Music is the place where Silence meets sound. So, we have two immediate perspectives:…

    Silence Is Not Silent
  • Questions And How To Ask Them

    Firstly, why are we asking a question? What, how, and why? Where does our question come from – moving from association, curiosity, expressing an opinion, pushing an agenda; or something deeper, set in motion by the need for an answer? This is where the question warms up. Is our question useful or necessary, seeking information…

    Questions And How To Ask Them
  • Paradise is our natural condition. This is the good news.Our condition is unnatural. This is the bad news. Love cannot bear that even one soul be denied its place in paradise. This is even better news.But, we cannot bear Love. This is terrible news. Paradise is always available. This is more good news.But, we are…

    Paradise – Paradise Lost – Paradise Regained
  • How Do You Push The Reset Button?

    It’s very hard to see what we’re looking at, if we believe we already know what we’re seeing. Q:  How do you push the reset button?A: Firstly, why would we want to hit reset and to see things as they actually are? Most likely in response to necessity, external and/or internal. External necessity, in the…

    How Do You Push The Reset Button?
  • The Creative Moment

    ITimelessness And Succession The creative moment takes place where timelessness and the stream of successive events meet. This moment is where, experienced from within the time stream, time stands still. When we move more fully into that moment, where time ends. This is where we were, before we were born. Robert FrippFriday 17th. February, 2006Mount…

    The Creative Moment
  • Commenting

    Although I have no authority, I give myself permission to have authority in the affairs of my own life. If someone wishes to comment usefully on those affairs, better they have an equal, comparable or, preferably, greater authority. When we recognise in someone a “greater authority” to our own, wise to seek them out and…

    Commenting