by Luka | Jul 17, 2025 | Consciousness, Life, Mind, Philosophy
The other day I heard one person describe another person as “eclectic.” I thought about this for a while and realized that using the adjective eclectic to describe a person is redundant. Moot. Not even worth mentioning. Why? Because every...
by Luka | Jul 8, 2025 | Life, Mind, Philosophy
When we talk about anything, we talk about experience. Any word we use isn’t the thing in itself but only a proxy for a direct experience. This should be obvious but it’s all too easily forgotten. Why is that? Because language is just so hypnotizing. It’s...
by Luka | Jun 25, 2025 | Consciousness, Life, Mind, Philosophy, Spirituality
Many of us feel like we’re perpetrators of some undefined crime. What did we do to deserve this and not that? Why am I here and not there? Perhaps you feel like you’re in some place you shouldn’t be in, or you’re not good enough,...
by Luka | Jun 10, 2025 | Consciousness, Life, Mind, Spirituality
“Beware of dead weight, my companions. All is a dead weight to the man who has a firm faith in his godhood. He holds in himself the world, yet carries not its weight.” — Mikhail Naimy, The Book of Mirdad Reflecting on this passage from The Book of Mirdad...
by Luka | May 29, 2025 | Consciousness, Mind, Philosophy, Spirituality
Inquiry doesn’t ask you to learn more, do more, or become more. Inquiring means looking — raw and unfiltered — straight into the heart of your experience. For the modern consciousness connoisseur, inquiry is often associated with Ramana’s self-inquiry —...
by Luka | May 11, 2025 | Consciousness, Mind, Philosophy
Mind is a convenient fiction. Useful, conventionally. It allows us to take ownership of thinking and build a cozy little container around it and imagine that we know where thoughts come from and where they disappear into. Instead of thought coming from...
