The moment we engage in a thought of rebellion, of engaging in the idea of an enemy, or an entity to resist, is the moment we define and essentially create that force. In a very real way, life answers back instantly with a mirror of the exact thing we purport to be standing against. It meets us half way, regardless of the inputs we provide. Remember.
Category: Journal Entries
thoughts, ponderings, experiences and lessons learned. or, something deep and life-changing.
Truth seeking… It’s a multifaceted, multidimensional, multidisciplinary journey. Any number of deep, dark rabbit holes can keep you occupied for a lifetime, and yet nothing is noticeably improved. In fact, it’s much worse. Nevertheless, when you need to know what’s true, this is the inevitable process. Until, at least, the borrowed illusions and practiced delusions are exposed and shattered. Then, the truth is plain and clear and horrific and beautiful.
Some lessons only arrive after exhaustion. After years spent rushing toward purpose, survival, or success, there comes a moment when the noise begins to lose its authority. Slowing down is not surrendering ambition; it is returning to the only place real understanding can emerge. In stillness, we begin to recognize what constant motion was costing us, and what quiet truths had been waiting beneath it all.
There are many ways in which events we may or may not have any control over will sabotage the flow of our lives, diverting us from our mission.
He sat on the bed in the basement bedroom, warming up his fingers across the inclined keyboard on the old accordion. Frustrated with the way…