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Wisdom from an empty mind

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

The “I don’t know” state disables ego and frees consciousness to perform its wonders.

Wisdom has no thought process.

Keith Ashford

Donuts are More Fun the Older You Get: Random Thoughts on Aging and the Mind

I sat down at my laptop and it seemed like minutes went by. And then it hit me: “Where did the time go?” I checked Facebook, made coffee, fixed some older blog posts, drank my coffee and ate a couple of mini doughnuts, and I thought a lot about how I don’t have anything original to say.  mais 770 palavras

Humor

how a few moments of empty-mind spiked with questions of the unanswerable kind can deliver you to your effulgent nothingness

I take off my clothes,

lift them to my face,

inhale the fragrance of my skin.

By what alchemy was that unique odour created?

 

I soak in the bath, mais 325 palavras

A Savage Wisdom

Emptying the Mind When Life is Full

I’ve been busy lately working, starting a new job, and doing physical therapy for my acute back strain, so my poor blog has been neglected. Also, being on muscle relaxers constantly for over a month takes a toll on my brain power. mais 257 palavras

Spirituality

Vacantly yours

Dude, step out of your head. Be the space she’s asking for.

Keith Ashford

Problems, problems

All of our problems are mind-made. They are mental creations. Nothing in the natural world has a problem. No mind, no problem.

Keith Ashford

How to succeed without trying

Keep quiet. Cultivate aloneness. Befriend uncertainty. Excise ambition. Don’t strive. Welcome what comes.

Keith Ashford