Many have said that it takes all kinds of kinds to keep the world moving, from my perspective that is only empty justification, the kind of justification that keeps us from confronting and evolving our lesser selves. One must see that there are what is called self-preservationists and then there are societal-preservationists. The self preservationist…
It seems to me that there was a time when I believed I could do anything, though without realizing this, I must admit that I have forgotten the sensibility required to put forth all faith in such tenets of self and self-reliance. It is not so much about being lost but more so about finding…
Continue reading ➞ Settling For Not Settling and Other Admissions
How do you find anything newwhen you arrive with familiarity?Keeping the same goals, worries andsentiments are only introducing youto the same ditch you think you madeyour way out of.... So next time youexplore some new place, make sure toexplore that place in your soul first,that will be for your well-being andnot just your amusement. -AH
In conversation and even in passing, there are those of us with a twinkle, a spark in our eye, in our being. What is it and where does it come from? Is it the absence of fear or the welcome of acceptance? Perhaps neither, maybe at its core it is merely the absence of death,…
What is in an I? I am a person, but am I more than an object? There is a comfort in the human experience that we are often attached to in fascination and even in excuse, it is duality, a quasi-separation of our being and our actions, I the thing versus I the spirit. If…
Everybody is rushing, rushing to get old, rushing to stay young, in a hurry to marry, in a hurry to get lonely, in a hurry to become somebody and in this rush to prove what we can do we miss out on the who that is living, being and becoming us. At the drop of…
At some point, the whirring would dissipate into the chugging and then to a screeching halt. The sound of rust and steel, perhaps the desperate sigh for relevance at the center of a breakdown. In its shadows, the far off rumbling of an engine steamrolling its way through the flickering lamps of the entire neighborhood,…
"I am satisfied with what I have"...Of course this was regarding things in a closet or on a shelf but how often do we hear this statement spoken in a prideful moment of an enlightened, near zen type of sudden awakening from our peers, colleagues and acquaintances? Things, right? But what if this is deeper,…
Continue reading ➞ The Difference Between Satisfaction + Desire
