religion

  • Life Is Art

    To remain still while dreaming of success is to invite erosion and decay. When we act on our dreams, our experience causes the dreams to adapt, making their success more probable. To repress ourselves and ignore our dreams, allowing them… Continue reading

  • Limbo

    It is a fact of life that as we get older our options get stripped away from us. Each choice we make closes the door on options we will never get to experience, and each stage of our life introduces… Continue reading

  • Purgatory

    Wedged in between”going with the flow” and “exerting control”.Not knowing which is rightand which is wrong.The only way out is toconstantly, with the dedicated humility of ritualized prayer,remind ourselves of who we areand what our own goals are.The pain of… Continue reading

  • The Pain of Conscious Progress

    Powerful people must experience their own decline to the point of open awareness, or else the fight to control will destroy the world. Continue reading

  • The Variations of Responsibility

    Our perception of ourselves in the world defines our understanding of responsibility. Responsibility is very different for a person who sees themselves alone and disconnected, than it is for a person who sees themselves as interwoven with everything and everyone… Continue reading

  • The Three Adolescences

    We never stop growing. I have experienced, first hand, two of the three adolescences, and closely observed the third. The three adolescences are the Teenage Years, Midlife Crisis, and Becoming Elderly. Adolescence, in essence, is the process of adaptation. As… Continue reading

    The Three Adolescences