When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Tuesday, July 28, 2026
The Betrayal of the Body BY Alexander Lowen
As long as the ego dominates the individual, he cannot have the oceanic or transcendental experiences that make life meaningful. Since the ego recognizes only direct causes, it cannot admit the existence of forces beyond its comprehension. Thus, not until the ego bows down to a higher power (as in prayer, for instance) can an individual have a truly religious experience. Not until the ego surrenders to the body in sex can a person have an orgiastic experience. And only when the ego abdicates before the majesty of nature will a person have a mystical experience. In each case, the dissolution of the ego returns the individual to the state of unity and continuum in which "moving" experiences are possible.
Monday, July 27, 2026
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Everything in the universe is created by your own mind. Our mind is the source of all phenomena...Our consciousness is like an artist, painting every phenomenon into being.”
We have mistaken intensity for truth, believing connection must announce itself through heat, urgency, and want. But what flares too brightly is often brief. Fire seduces the senses, then leaves only ash where meaning once struggled to live.
The most enduring connections are born in the dark ~ where minds recognize one another before names are ever spoken, where values echo softly across silence. It is not passion that binds here, but resonance. A shared moral gravity. Two inner worlds aligning not by force, but by inevitability.
There is a sensuality in this recognition that feels almost forbidden. No touch is required. Thoughts slip beneath the skin, linger in the chest and unravel defenses with unnerving precision. It is intimacy that breathes in pauses, that tightens in the space between words, that knows exactly where to haunt long after the moment has passed.
This is what has been lost. In a world obsessed with flesh, we have forgotten how devastating it is to be truly seen. Bodies are consumed, traded and abandoned ~ while the slow communion of minds is dismissed as too quiet, too demanding, too real.
Our bodies will betray us. They soften, scar and fade. But a connection rooted in intellect and spirit only sharpens with time. It deepens in shared memory, in mutual knowing, in the way another presence begins to live inside you. Not loudly. Not urgently. But permanently.
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