Thisness

Love this shot of one of our new players, Nordi Mukiele, taking in our away fans.

"Neo-Liberalism has transferred so much of our wealth to the Billionaire class while telling us it’s socialism that we should be afraid of."

— David Graeber

Good morning.

Now that’s what I call a result!

A moody, cloudy sky is captured with various shades of blue and gray.

Good morning.

You are not a thing. You are the space where everything happens.

The state of the world There is nothing wrong with the world, nor has there ever been. The problem is my steadfast devotion to two false gods, ME and MINE, and to the memories that enshroud and ennoble them.

"There is nothing wrong with the world, nor has there ever been. The problem is my steadfast devotion to two false gods, ME and MINE, and to the memories that enshroud and ennoble them."

— The state of the world

You don’t get where you need to be if you try and go where you want to be.

Keeping it simple Remember that thoughts are only the product of the momentary confluence of a great number of factors. In themselves they do not exist. Thus, the moment they arise, recognize that their nature is em…

Keeping it simple - a new post on An Open Ground: anopenground.com/2025/10/24/k...

"The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it." - C.G. Jung

A small river flows between green leafy trees with a Pumpkin stuck in the water.

Pumpkin.

"We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective."

— Kurt Vonnegut

"You discipline yourself, you meditate, you suppress certain desires, you force your mind to fit into a frame. And so your whole life, your whole consciousness is twisted."

— Krishnamurti

Good morning.

YouTube video by Beastie Boys - Topic Funky Boss (Remastered 2009)

Because why not?

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via Mark Stoneman

"If you want to defeat the enemy, raise their children."

Sharing for no particular reason.

I Framed the Image. The Image Framed the Loop. No one behind the camera. No one outside the loop.

"There is no place to stand outside the loop. No clean point of entry. No final exit. No start to locate. No end to reach. Only this—forever turning."

— Robert Saltzman, I Framed the Image. The Image Framed the Loop

via graeber.social

Good afternoon.

"It’s over, the ‘buddhas and patriarchs’ disease that once gripped my chest. Now I’m just an ordinary man with a clean slate."

— Daito Kokushi

Good afternoon.

This is always it, with or without language or meaning, what is here now is everything.

Good morning.

Gorgeous

"What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life."

Nordi Mukiele plays ‘happy football’. ⚽️ 😀 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordi_Mukiele

‘I’d had 28 years of depression – now it was gone’: Comic Paul Foot on three seconds that changed his life Driving through Manchester one Sunday, at the wheel of a Nissan Micra, Foot suddenly woke from decades of anxiety, anger and misery. He talks about the friends who tried to help him, and the forgiveness he struggled to find

Ordinary enlightenment: https://thisness.one/2025/10/21/ordinary-enlightenment.html

Good afternoon.

"Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you’d think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise."

— Lewis Thomas