Chubmeister 5000

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”

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J. Krishnamurti

Here’s an image I share because I’m trying to look for images that I think can be so helpful. Metaphors can’t be explained, but they are like Jesus’ parables or koans; you can sense in a story or an image a realization that you can’t explain.

One of the images that I like from Meister Eckhart is when he says, “Imagine that you’re looking at a

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I am idealistic, but not a lunatic. If this is not the world I am spending my days moving towards, then I have no desire to be here. Indeed, to stay on our current course is lunacy.

Knowing I should be held not as meteors are discovered:

long after their time, funneled by obsolescence

but fondled as ribbons in the sky do each other:

stretching a graze to an entanglement, whatever which way the wind blows.

Take a close look at what you assume the solution to your life must look like. Are there any of those assumptions that you could turn into variables instead? As in: “Sure, I’ll sign with a label if it helps me spend more time jamming and less time doing things that frustrate me. Otherwise—no.”