by This | Jun 28, 2023 | Life, Philosophy
We have this tendency to conceptualize and contextualize our experiences. We want to know why what is happening is happening. So we go out and seek answers, whether it’s about emotions, thoughts, specific aspects of spiritual awakening, or other experiences....
by This | Jun 22, 2023 | Life, Philosophy, Self Development, Spirituality
Art has, for as long as I can think, played a defining role in my life, although not always consciously. And I certainly hadn’t drawn the connection between spirituality and art back in the day. By back in the day, I mean the time when I had spent quite a...
by This | Jun 18, 2023 | Life, Philosophy, Short Story, Spirituality
One day, surprised by a torrentuous rain, a wandering sage took cover in a cave. There he was surprised by another surprise — a calmly sitting mystic immersed in a blissful state. Upon noticing the sage’s presence, the mystic welcomed him. ...
by This | Jun 9, 2023 | Life, Philosophy
That love hurts is one of the assumptions no one likes but we all take for granted. But why does love hurt? Why is the one thing that, poetically speaking, has the power to transcend time and space causing so much pain? Because it’s not love we are...
by This | Jun 7, 2023 | Consciousness, Life, Mind, Philosophy, Spirituality
If there is one thing we all have in common is that we suffer in life. Even the ones who no longer suffer have, at some point, suffered. To be one of the no-longer-sufferers we have to get to the cause of suffering followed by a visceral understanding that...
by This | May 23, 2023 | Life, Philosophy
When it comes to what could or couldn’t happen many of us think in terms of probability as if probability is an actual intermediary that actually influences actual happenings. But all it really does is keep us in a limited way of thinking where we are victims of...
