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You Can Get Off the Vomit Treadmill Now
This world we live in, apart from being fun and entertaining, is insane. By world, I don't mean the world of trees and rivers and fluttering sparrows. I mean the human world, society, culture, conditioning, call it how you want. The suggestions,...
Life Is an Optical Illusion
Life is like one of those 3D dot pictures (aka autostereogram). You can spend all your time looking at the dots, never seeing the image. Most of us spend our whole lives looking only at the dots. But if you stare long enough or know what to look for...
Stop Defending Yourself and Take the Hit
You’re not as smart/good/kind/beautiful as you think. If that rubbed you in the wrong way, then it’s because that’s part of your self-identity. I don’t mean that being smart/good/kind/beautiful is part of your self-identity (though it might be) but the...
The Two Most Important Questions to Ask Yourself
“Quietly yearning for what you don’t have while dreading losing what you do. For 99.9% of your race that is the definition of reality. Desire and fear baby.” — The Analyst, Matrix Resurrections (Yes, I'm quoting the Matrix movie no one apparently liked.) What do I...
Toward a Better Way of Being in the World
There is a paradigm of being that most people are not aware of. Many people feel offended when you question their current somnambulistic state of being. This is something I can and can't understand. I can understand it because defending,...
If All Else Fails, Love Yourself to Death
How are your attempts at self-improvement going? If I were to guess they’re probably somewhere in between succeeding at the expense of great effort or failing by defaulting to your default. Perhaps the problems started when you decided that you were not...
You Are Experiencing Your True Nature Right Now
Non-dual awareness is the essence of awakening or enlightenment. By definition, non-dual awareness is not something that comes and goes or needs to be evoked or otherwise made to appear. Non-dual awareness is your regular ordinary everyday awareness....
It Doesn’t Matter What Your Life Looks Like, Only How It Feels
Most of us approach life upside-down. We care more about how our life looks on the outside to others than how it feels on the inside to our very own selves. There are two main reasons for that. The first is the biggie. Other people are...
Only Dead People Don’t Contradict Themselves
"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)" — Walt Whitman Many of us are afraid to speak our minds openly and frankly. We fear that we might be wrong, and that people will judge us and that we’ll be...
An Ode to Doing Nothing
Sit alone in a safe space. Nothing needs to be done now. Everything is fine. How long until your mind claims something is wrong? How long until thoughts demand action? “I should be learning something.” “I should be working...
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