Today, I will be unafraid
Just for today I will be unafraid.
Not because I know what’s ahead.
Not because I expect it to go my way.
But because fear is no way to live.
Fire The Warden
There’s a warden in your head—and he’s the past.
You hired him. You keep him on the payroll.
He’s an ever-present voice, dragging out every failure, highlighting where you missed the mark, and promising more of the same ahead.
You and I, Me and You: The Mixtape Essay (+Playlist)
I need something strong that I can build new hope upon. Ain’t it a lonely feeling, talking about my and me instead of we and free? So many voices shouting, so much noise. Hear the contradictions fly. Telling you to lose your individuality. Don’t spend a lot of time thinking about these things. We don’t
Resentment & Reality: Tolle’s A New Earth
Can human beings lose the density of their conditioned mind structures? Can they defy the gravitational pull of materialism and materiality and rise above the identification with form that keeps the ego in place and condemns them to imprisonment within their own personality?
What to Remember When Waking, David Whyte
In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake, coming back to this life from the other more secret, moveable and frighteningly honest world where everything began, there is a small opening into the new day which closes the moment you begin your plans. What you can plan is too small for you
The Season After Surviving
If the seasons of life match those of nature, then in my life—it’s spring.
Creation is teasing and revealing itself to me as if for the first time.
If I am to believe in culture, this must be a delusion. Wishful thinking. Midlife crisis.
But no—it’s not.