no man’s land January 29, 2010
12am to 5am with coffee is sometimes what it takes to push through challanges. life here seems to be that feeling from 6.30am to 10pm. pop on the headphones and focus.
plenty time to think, plan, develop a formal appreciation for what you’ve got, lament, sculpt your body and soul. the process never ends, just rinses and repeats. let’s see what comes out of this on the flipside.
As Alan Watts puts it:
It is complete letting go. Not only is it beyond theology; it is beyond atheism and nihilism. Such letting go cannot be attained. It cannot be acquired or developed through perseverance and exercise, except insofar as such efforts prove the impossibility of acquiring it. Letting go comes only through desperation. When you know that it is beyond you – beyond your powers of acting as beyond your powers of relaxation. When you give up every last trick and device for getting it, including this ‘giving up’ as something that one might do, say, at ten o’clock tonight. That you cannot by any means do it – that is it! That is the mighty self-abandonment which gives birth to the stars.

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