Founder & Editor
Writes on conditioning, identity and the psychology of belief. Interested less in answers than in the quality of the questions people are willing to sit with.
11 published pieces
DesireThere is the time a clock measures, and there is the distance between who you are and who you intend to become. One is a fact. The other is built by thought — and every hour spent crossing it is an hour spent building it higher.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
IdentityWho are you when you remove your name, role, history and possessions? Not a riddle — an experiment you can run on yourself this afternoon.
PresenceThere is a gap. It is not empty, and it is not mystical. It is simply where you are when nothing is being said.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
ObedienceWhy intelligent people blindly follow what they know is wrong — and why intelligence was never the safeguard we assumed it was.
Freedom from ConditioningThere is no exit door, and anyone selling one is part of the arrangement. There is only the slow, unglamorous work of seeing the walls.
You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.
DeathEvery contemplative tradition gives some version of the same instruction. Read literally rather than poetically, it is far more practical than it sounds.
WitnessingSelf-observation seems to require two: one who watches and one who is watched. Look for the watcher and the arrangement does something unexpected.
AttentionIf there is a single lever in inner life, it is attention. Everything called practice is some arrangement for placing it deliberately.