When we ‘turn our backs on the new’ then things inevitably start to get stale. The old and the familiar will always get stale. First things get stale, then they get unpleasantly and malodorously sour, and then finally they become...
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We degrade life by thinking about it - it's a 'bigger event' than we perceive it to be, in other words. It somehow becomes commonplace, unremarkable, only-to-be-expected, and so on. We might try to tell ourselves that life a big...
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The world we routinely live in (and fondly imagine ourselves to understand) is made up entirely from some sort of inert padding. The word ‘padding’ implies, of course, that there is nothing in it. Or perhaps we should say that...
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The very big problem with purposeful behaviour is that just as long as we are engaging in it, we will never encounter unstructured space. Goal-orientated behaviour will only ever take us to our goal, obviously enough! We don't want it...
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