Questioning Everything & Anything In Between
New love is precious and must be protected. It is fragile like a flower that has just begun to barely open. It has not yet fully formed into its glory and is still developing. Other people can become jealous seeing new love. When that jealousy is unconscious, it is especially dangerous to the new lovers. … Continue reading New Love
Where I am sitting now is so far, so different, yet just a few feet away from where I was sitting the last time I wrote here. I have traveled through entire universes only to have moved about four feet to the southeast. I have dusted off the weight of what has come before me … Continue reading On the Nature of Questions, Social Software, Human Stories & Ideologies
We are all trying to communicate to each other through our perspective. Perspective includes biases, preconceived notions, beliefs, feelings, judgments, and thoughts. All of these are subject to being correct or incorrect. All of these are like different colored lenses through which we view life, changing the appearance of what we see. All perspectives change … Continue reading Self-Understanding: The True Nature of Meditation
Time exists only in the physical space in which we live. There is a space beyond time that is the container for all that exists in time. However, today we will explore the nature of existence within time. We often feel that the world is a place where time is constantly speeding up, with ever-increasing … Continue reading On the Nature of Physical Time
There is no current way around it. Interaction with the world, its systems, and most all of the people in it requires time-bound communication. Everything is run to a clock, and we have all been trained en masse to organize our lives accordingly. This is why people party—to forget about the passage of time. This … Continue reading The Pull
Nearly three years ago, the safe life I had built for myself had begun to unravel. You can say that certainly is what has happened. I understand now why so many choose not to question the purpose of their life. It shatters your perception of what was and what is to be until you eventually realize neither … Continue reading Yes, Everyone Seems To Be Asleep
Hello, Internet. Long time no write. Like visiting an old friend after much time, I will just pick up where I left off, as if we were in the middle of a conversation, as if we never left it sitting there separately from ourselves somewhere in the void of time. The last time I wrote, I … Continue reading The Beginning of the End
I officially finished my first week of study at the school on Saturday August 8th. The first week was filled with a variety of experiences, ranging from pleasant to elating to nearly overwhelmingly intense, but along the whole spectrum, synchronicity has been as prevalent as the wandering cows, a constant reminder that I am exactly … Continue reading Mind Games in Rishikesh
If I am not for myself then who is for me? And being for my own self, what am “I”? And if not now, when? — Hillel the Elder This quote best sums the essence of the who, what, where, when, and why of how I have ended up nearly 10,000 miles away from my … Continue reading Journey to India – Thoughts from the First Two Nights
