Socrates said “The unexamined life is not worth living.”; a saying he spoke at his trial after which he was sentenced to death, for alleged ‘impiety and corrupting of youth’, which most certainly would have been framed by people who imagined themselves to be at best his peers, or more likely, his betters, in the sentiment captured by these very same words: “Who do you think you are?”
Awakening
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Modesty is redundant if you are simply honest and self-aware. Piety is redundant if you are simply authentic and open to true gratitude. Demanding Piety and Humility from each other infantilises adults. We turn Modesty into a dick measuring contest, which we use to calculate the merit of someone who […]
Do not let people tell you that you are wrong to love or dream, even if it wounds you both. Where it wounds you, needed opening and healing all along, where it wounds them, does not in truth wound them, only exposes where they were wounded all along. The same is true for you.
To be overwhelmed, is to have been half born into the next place that we were not ready for, and to be alarmed at how loud and pressing the demand arrives that we give something of ourselves we are not ready to give, seeking a hurried way back to the […]
Each of us can begin by facing the small discomforts we have been avoiding, and learn to sit with those, learn to show leadership to our selves, and learn stillness, to not be so easily triggered and moved about by the flutterings of emotion and the drama that is authored by the apparatus of our minds when our conscious awareness and sense of adult leadership is not in the room.
words of inspiration. Your dance and your song have their own sacred truth. Your light and your voice and your shadow that you cast; the footprint you leave on this earth and in the hearts of other people, is rare and unmatched and inimitable.
we cannot choose our starting positions, or the tools we have today, but we can choose tomorrow's. To reach, means both to strive towards something beyond ourselves, and our arrival there. Our job is not to explain the handicap we have or the mess we have inherited from our childhoods […]
there are two ways to be made whole: connection is the horizontal integration, and Integrity & Authenticity is the vertical integration. the sad fact of a human life is this: you can have one without the other, you can have either vertical integration without the latter or vice versa,and when […]
the divine that i seek, is not in the temple, if it is not also outside the temple... Our journeys through childhood, our lack of initiation into adulthood, our being lead and taught by people who themselves had never been properly inducted into life, programmed by a culture that had […]
We are who we repeatedly choose to be. Everything is hard at first. A lot of the project of Growth and Healing comes down to a kind of growing up, accepting that: There are no quick fixes, there is not some Deus Ex Machina, there is no magic bullet that […]
At least half of waking up is learning and practicing the art of grieving and letting go. Awakening is a threshing. This is a truth that can not be any other way. We are the wheat and just so, the chaff of what must be removed by rough handling is […]