Zen, Yoga, Gurdjieff- perspectives on inner work

  The future already exists. It exists as a thing unto itself, which already is what it is and won’t be changed by my desire. From the pers...

  July 23 Gradually, the molecular intelligence of one’s being gathers itself into a single place. This happens over a period of time and...

  July 17 I’m generally not too comfortable with talking about my psychic experiences, but at this age, I suppose it really doesn’t matter...

  Elderberries Washington Valley Road Farm, Morristown, NJ This week a conversation with a good friend, quite a bit younger with me, highlig...

Care is a mycelium that spreads its threads throughout life in every direction, invisible, yet the sustaining force of the mind – body itsel...

  This morning, I had a brief encounter with a lost cyclist who I gave directions to; up until then, I’d spent more than an hour on my bike ...

The difference between emotion and feeling is that emotion means to move out from — that is to say, it implies, based on its Latin root emov...

  Truly intelligent thought has a grasp of things that lies well beyond the ordinary; and it is not under the direction or control of ordina...

June  18, continued   The difference between mechanical thought and actual thought is that actual thought can observe; and, in a paradoxical...

  June 18. One has to immerse oneself quite deeply in what one thinks, remaining aware of the thought while being inserted into it, in order...

  Today would have been my mother’s 90th birthday. Only the body can remember the body. The head just thinks it can remember the body. Onl...