Joe Cecil

The curse of irony

"This, but ironically" makes sense regardless of context, and it's corrosive to meaning. I don't even have to say it. Just noticing that I could say it, just thinking it to myself, suddenly I'm a little bit detached from experience. Now I&

Take risks* sometimes

Risks are sometimes worth taking. This is obvious. The tricky part is feeling and behaving as if it is true. I notice myself behaving as if this isn't true all the time. If I write something, it's always possible that the reader will read it some

How to get the x-axis of an Excel scatter chart programmatically

Excel lets you manipulate its charts programmatically with VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) or with ExcelScript (TypeScript calling the Excel API). Unfortunately, I couldn't find any method that obviously lets you get the x-axis—because Excel uses a different ontology for naming the axes. Charts in Excel'

Animal realm mottos 1

I don't quite recognize the animal realm as described in Spacious Passion—I recognize what it's about but I'm struggling to come up with exampels from my own life—so here's an attempt to connect it to such things: 1. "This

The confusing part about "proving existence"

I'm trying to follow the idea of "proving I exist" from various meditation books I've read—Spectrum of Ecstasy, Spacious Passion, Rays of the Sun, The Myth of Freedom, and the opening chapters of Seeing That Frees. The idea is that we experience attraction,

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