Nick WilliamsExploratory ModeOne definition of mental health could be to say that what is healthy (what leads to our psychological well-being) is when there is a…6 min read·Aug 2, 2021----
Nick WilliamsNot Clever To Be CleverWe wear out the shoe of samsara by walking on it, says Chogyam Trungpa. This is a very radical statement and completely contrary to…7 min read·Jul 31, 2021----
Nick WilliamsSubtler Than ThoughtWhen we’re ‘thinking all the time’ this has the effect of making us fundamentally insincere — it makes us insincere with other people and…9 min read·Jul 9, 2021----
Nick WilliamsDetachment and IntimacyOddly, ‘detachment’ and ‘intimacy’ turn out to be the very same thing. We wouldn’t normally think that this could be the case but it is…8 min read·Jun 28, 2021----
Nick WilliamsPurposefulness and SpontaneityThere are two modes in which we human beings can exist, so to speak — one being the spontaneous mode and the other the purposeful one…9 min read·Jun 26, 2021----
Nick WilliamsThe Piece We Just Don’t GetThere is ‘a piece’ that we never seem to get and this causes a particularly vicious problem that we are quite blind to. The problem is that…5 min read·Jun 21, 2021----
Nick WilliamsDreamers And DoersHumanity is divided into ‘the dreamers’ and ‘the doers’, or — at least — that’s what we love to say in the West. We’re nailing our colours…7 min read·Jun 5, 2021----
Nick WilliamsThe world that we are in is the world in which we lose ourselves.The magnetic pull of forgetting is overwhelming, irresistible; we lose ourselves without ever noticing it happen. As newborn babies we…6 min read·Jun 1, 2021----
Nick WilliamsThe DreamscapeI was talking away to myself, trying to cheer myself up. ‘Now that’s not so bad is it?’ I said, ‘that’s not so bad, that’s not so bad’ at…3 min read·May 27, 2021----
Nick WilliamsNot Mentioning The TravestyOne definition of mental health could be to say that it is when there is a movement away from the self, away from who we think we are. This…8 min read·May 23, 2021----