Thoughts & Inclinations

Living on this suspicious rock, floating through an infinity that is barely comprehensible to the human imagination since 1991. My thoughts and feelings on the Universe, that strange ever-present notion of existence, and my inclinations within it all. Within the game.

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Thought for today. Take a moment and let this settle in. You must be the full works, all that has ever been. So treat your day to day life as play. Enjoy it. Explore it. Smile and remember that you are it! #iceland #alanwatts #alanwattsquotes #wisdom #wellness #mentalhealth #exploration #travel #peace #spirtuality #inwards #philosphy #philosophy #waterfall #iceland #rainbow #happiness #playground #earth (at Iceland) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn5vk6Sn6R9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=bwn0k5g8pbvf

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Take the journey and realize what you’re looking for is already looking through you. 

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In today’s rush, we all think too much — seek too much — want too much — and forget about the joy of just being.

Eckhart Tolle (via mindfulawareness)

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u should listen to Alan Watts 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYffSEV7pdw

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Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.

Alan Watts (via quotemadness)

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The Knower of the Self

How is it that we can say ‘know oneself’. To know oneself as, let’s say, name and age? What about identification through career or professional title? I am Jonathon and I’m a young media professional…still, this sounds somewhat empty.

This is an attribute and not remotely anything to do with the self, as is my family name, personal interests, and cultural identification. All of these are circumstantial attributes gathered through life progression. Through playing the game.

Is there something deeper observing these notions. Something looking through each of us? The knower. The knower of my memories. The knower of my personal growth and development. The knower of change. I mean, how can one know change, isn’t it a feeling?

You are not your thoughts or titles, these are just the attachments of the ego. You are the observer behind thoughts and emotions. You are the knower before memories and time.

Do not attach to the thoughts that enter the mind, most are intrusive and negative. Do not let the ego attach as the ego often chooses to identify and believe in all thoughts as to be facts about the self.

Carl Jung suggested (I paraphrase here) that in each of us ’there is another who we do not know’. Get to know this self and contemplate these ideas. In an ocean of thoughts, ideas, and choices who can know what is right and what isn’t. The observer. The real you. The one that’s been here all along just watching, Seeing as the observer of your mind, life, emotions, and choices.

Once you can see and begin to understand these layers you’ll reveal the true self. This is your consciousness. This is the real you in essence. So, get to know yourself.

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You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

Rumi 

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Whatever happens in your head is not you. Whatever happens in your body is not you. Whatever happens in the world is not you. Whatever happens is not you. Yet none of it can exist without you, the perceiver of it all.

Mooji

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"Caught up in specialness. I wish you could see that we are kings of bliss begging for misery."

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I think the universe tries to soften the emotional hurt by gifting a new form of life. Not to show that this is better, but to show that it is natural.

Myself

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Hungarian Sunset by Seth McMahon

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Everything and nothing, at once.

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“The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?”

Bob Marley 

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A little something for any Psychonauts out there. Journey deep and journey safe, my friends. 

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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little, we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose

William Cowper