presence

June 8, 2025

you can have peace now (but you won’t want to)

The book says, “Breathe! You Are Alive.” And for once, I didn’t argue. This morning, after feeding the kittens, I stepped barefoot into the back garden, coffee in hand, Kindle open to a quiet teaching. The sun was already waiting—warming the stone steps, drying last night’s dew. A soft breeze...

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October 5, 2022

Wretched is the Mind

Montaigne: We are never ‘at home’: we are always outside ourselves. Fear, desire, hope, impel us towards the future; they rob us of feelings and concerns for what now is, in order to spend time over what will be – even when ourselves shall be no more. Wretched is the...

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