willingness

Day 77 – Brian Eno and Piglet

by Valerie Roney
July 20, 2011
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aka the virtue of the small (part 2)

Brain Eno said something really mind blowing when he spoke here at the Jack Singer last winter – okay he actually said 3 hrs of mind blowing stuff, but the thing I dug so much I had to write down was his observation: sex, drugs, and religion have one thing in common – surrender. Surrender is a tough thing for us humans to do, and it takes firing off some major pleasure centres with sex or drugs to make it seem like a good idea.

The dangerous thing with religion, and maybe sex and drugs too, is what you surrender to. Read More »Day 77 – Brian Eno and Piglet

Day 69 – to sleep, perchance to dream

by Valerie Roney
July 15, 2011
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So, I’ve started off my retreat with the equivalent of sleeping off a giant cerebral turkey dinner. I can’t remember the last time I had such a long non-drug-induced sleep. Like an over-stimulated baby who’s collapsed into slumber, shutting down new input so they can map some new neurons in peace, I can’t stop sleeping.Read More »Day 69 – to sleep, perchance to dream

day 45 – funk

Funk. And I don’t mean funk in a fun James Brown kinda way. Woke up today in a funk, for no discernible reason, but there… Read More »day 45 – funk

Day 34 – turtle as a verb

I feel like crap today, did an interesting thing though. Started my meditation while still feeling like crap. Usually I putz around ’til some combo of food, meds, coffee, napping, gets me feeling like I can start my day, and then I sit. Today I just sat. Sat with feeling like crap. Just allowed myself to be fully present in that, instead of trying to distract myself or fix it.Read More »Day 34 – turtle as a verb