A Space Without A Goal
Fourteen
Stop judging yourself and you stop judging others.
To distrust others is to distrust yourself.
We can trust ourselves. There's no need to "create" something to trust to. Creating something to trust to has got us into lotsa trouble.
There's a harmony to chaos.
To trust to that harmony is to live artfully. To live artfully is to live gently: it can't be done any other way.
Trust yourself. Trust this space.
Hypertext adds a new dimension. It's made.
But it was already here. Non-made. In us. Just that we hadn't noticed.
Everything comes back. Everything's a response.
It's all one train of thought.
Collective consciousness.
Dogma goes.
Check your principles at the door. They're changing.
The process is irreversible. The itch to connect is innate.
The web is exploding.
The web tips us over the edge.
The Web is a vacuum.
The sublime is where it's at.
"It works, why worry?" is life's deepest philosophy. - Kevin Kelly
When everything flows, go with the flow, is life's deepest philosophy.
Our intuition is a sense of flow.
The body is the organ of intuition.
Feelings are a sense of process. Life is a creative advance into novelty.
Let go. Sense the flow. Follow your heart.
Ya gotta disconnect, to connect.
Everything's a beginning. It is enough to begin.
Our lives are confusing because we try to force answers upon ourselves. To force goals upon ourselves. To force a "future" upon ourselves.
"We cannot write the order of the variable winds." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is only late that one musters the courage for what one really knows...When one moves toward a goal it seems impossible that "goallessness as such" is the principle of our faith." - Fredrich Nietzsche
Be attuned to chaos rather than fight it.
Begin again.
Disconnect. Sense where to reconnect.
Begin again.
Disconnect. Sense where to reconnect.
Addiction is the enemy.
Let go.
There is nothing inexplicable about coincidences.
The separateness of consciousness and matter is an illusion. They are different aspects of the same stuff.
Our "current" view of the universe is a habit. Nothing more.
Our "current" behavior is a habit. Nothing more.
"...The waves of mutation
No anchorage is.
Habit is ten times nature."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Habit is the enemy. Disconnect. Sense where to reconnect.
Our sense of intuition is our sense of flow is our sense of the "future." We are connected to our destiny.
Choosing a path is creating a path.
We are all very different. There is no common person.
Every individual knows best. Everyone is individually responsible.
"We are all steering." - Kevin Kelly
The being is the doing.
Be open. Be flexible. Fixity and chaos make for a lumpy mixture.
A new perception of reality, a sense of Oneness, letting go, trusting to our deepest intuition, living artfully, relinquishing attempts to control. They're one and the same. Do one of 'em and you're there.
November 30th, 1995
For Nik.