Nothing New on a Detour

On the road, detouring through a new town that these eyes have never seen, still there is a knowing, a recognition of something that has not changed with the clocking of kilometers. Nothing here is new. Nothing here is not known. Nothing here is separate. Actually, it’s been that way the whole trip, something has stayed the same, all the way from Brampton. A vastness, peace, and joy comes with this eternal, unchanging recognition.

Do Thoughts Make You Suffer?

No. Thoughts are powerless, harmless, in and of themselves. Left along they can come and go because they only have a momentary existence, and no reality. Thoughts are powerless The brain’s job is to offer you thoughts, as options, not as mandatory, and it does a brilliant job of that, automatically churning out 40,000 thoughts a day, it is said. But you don’t believe them all, nor are you even aware of them all. So thoughts cannot “make” you suffer. Only when you