Thisness
@thisness.one
Support Worker in adult social care with an open-ended curiosity in the nature of mind.
https://thisness.one
https://thisness.one
"Even suffering is a part of our basic goodness. It brings us into direct contact with reality, cultivates compassion, and builds great inner strength when we deal with suffering skillfully."
— Tim Burkett
— Tim Burkett
December 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"Even suffering is a part of our basic goodness. It brings us into direct contact with reality, cultivates compassion, and builds great inner strength when we deal with suffering skillfully."
— Tim Burkett
— Tim Burkett
"I’ve watched her lose so much, but her attention is never on what has been lost. It is always on what is here now."
— Joan Tollifson
— Joan Tollifson
December 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"I’ve watched her lose so much, but her attention is never on what has been lost. It is always on what is here now."
— Joan Tollifson
— Joan Tollifson
"Concepts can be discussed forever without needing to put any skin in the game at all—but when this aliveness is cut, it bleeds."
— Robert Saltzman
— Robert Saltzman
December 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"Concepts can be discussed forever without needing to put any skin in the game at all—but when this aliveness is cut, it bleeds."
— Robert Saltzman
— Robert Saltzman
So finally our beloved Toast went to sleep forever this morning. She kept on trucking right up until she just couldn’t anymore. Great sadness but also wonderful and happy memories, particularly for our son to whom she was so close ... https://thisness.one/2025/11/29/so-finally-our-beloved-toast.html
November 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
So finally our beloved Toast went to sleep forever this morning. She kept on trucking right up until she just couldn’t anymore. Great sadness but also wonderful and happy memories, particularly for our son to whom she was so close ... https://thisness.one/2025/11/29/so-finally-our-beloved-toast.html
It’s easy to succumb to the soothing embrace of words and language when often we’re really falling into a trap.
November 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
It’s easy to succumb to the soothing embrace of words and language when often we’re really falling into a trap.
A must read from Damien Echols.
"It’s far easier to imagine a demonic cabal pulling the strings of the world than to admit that most suffering is caused by ordinary human greed, apathy, and unconsciousness."
— Epstein Files and Alien Disclosure, Damien Echols
"It’s far easier to imagine a demonic cabal pulling the strings of the world than to admit that most suffering is caused by ordinary human greed, apathy, and unconsciousness."
— Epstein Files and Alien Disclosure, Damien Echols
Epstein Files and Alien Disclosure
People imagine they’re searching for truth, but most of the time they’re searching for distraction.
damienechols.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
A must read from Damien Echols.
"It’s far easier to imagine a demonic cabal pulling the strings of the world than to admit that most suffering is caused by ordinary human greed, apathy, and unconsciousness."
— Epstein Files and Alien Disclosure, Damien Echols
"It’s far easier to imagine a demonic cabal pulling the strings of the world than to admit that most suffering is caused by ordinary human greed, apathy, and unconsciousness."
— Epstein Files and Alien Disclosure, Damien Echols
"See what you are. Don’t ask others, don’t let others tell you about yourself. Look within and see. All the teacher can tell you is only this."
— Nisargadatta
— Nisargadatta
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"See what you are. Don’t ask others, don’t let others tell you about yourself. Look within and see. All the teacher can tell you is only this."
— Nisargadatta
— Nisargadatta
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See what you are. Don’t ask others, don’t let others tell you about yourself. Look within and see. All the teacher can tell you is only this.
November 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
See what you are. Don’t ask others, don’t let others tell you about yourself. Look within and see. All the teacher can tell you is only this.
"…but this is hard to talk about, even now. Not because it’s mysterious, but because it’s ordinary. Too ordinary. And nothing is harder to convey than the simplicity that remains when all claims fall away."
— Robert Saltzman, A Clean Slate
— Robert Saltzman, A Clean Slate
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"…but this is hard to talk about, even now. Not because it’s mysterious, but because it’s ordinary. Too ordinary. And nothing is harder to convey than the simplicity that remains when all claims fall away."
— Robert Saltzman, A Clean Slate
— Robert Saltzman, A Clean Slate
Our problem is not that we keep coming up with answers but in believing any of them are THE answer.
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Our problem is not that we keep coming up with answers but in believing any of them are THE answer.
"You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself."
— Albert Camus
— Albert Camus
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
"You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself."
— Albert Camus
— Albert Camus
"To inhabit silence in our aloneness is to stop telling the story altogether."
— David Whyte
— David Whyte
November 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
"To inhabit silence in our aloneness is to stop telling the story altogether."
— David Whyte
— David Whyte
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"A political situation is the manifestation of a parallel psychological problem in millions of individuals. This problem is largely unconscious (which makes it a particularly dangerous one!)." - Carl Jung
November 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"A political situation is the manifestation of a parallel psychological problem in millions of individuals. This problem is largely unconscious (which makes it a particularly dangerous one!)." - Carl Jung
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"Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be."
November 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be."
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"People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress." - C.G. Jung
November 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress." - C.G. Jung
So Toast has been prescribed some additional strong painkillers by the vet for her arthritis flare up. We’ll see how things go but it’s only a temporary measure and almost certainly putting off ‘the decision’ that now looms sooner rather than later.
November 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
So Toast has been prescribed some additional strong painkillers by the vet for her arthritis flare up. We’ll see how things go but it’s only a temporary measure and almost certainly putting off ‘the decision’ that now looms sooner rather than later.
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The fundamental unknowability of God - a new post on An Open Ground: anopenground.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
November 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The fundamental unknowability of God - a new post on An Open Ground: anopenground.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
"Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it."
— Carl Jung
— Carl Jung
November 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
"Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it."
— Carl Jung
— Carl Jung
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"Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it."
November 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it."
Just back from the first run in what seems like weeks but is probably only a few days. Bad weather and ill health stretch time.
And so to clean out the fires, chop some logs and watch over our poorly hound as her mobility deteriorates.
And so to clean out the fires, chop some logs and watch over our poorly hound as her mobility deteriorates.
November 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Just back from the first run in what seems like weeks but is probably only a few days. Bad weather and ill health stretch time.
And so to clean out the fires, chop some logs and watch over our poorly hound as her mobility deteriorates.
And so to clean out the fires, chop some logs and watch over our poorly hound as her mobility deteriorates.