I have spent so much of my life trying to change things. Trying to move toward a better version of myself, a better situation, a better outcome. I thought that was the point. To improve. To fix. To arrive somewhere better than where I started. But today I saw something a tad more clearly than …
Today, I am stepping back. Not running away. Just pausing the endless, exhausting effort to fix myself. For a long time now, I have tried to change. I have tried to shed the old habits – the clinging, the worry, the quiet fear that I am somehow incomplete. I have understood, at a deep level, …
Come Take Your Seat I ran until the soles of my spirit wore thin,Banging on the doors of the Absolute,Demanding to be let in.I offered my intellect like a sharp, bright knife,Trying to cut a hole in the fabric of this life,To climb out of the vessel,To escape the human stain,To bypass the horror of …
Each thought arrives in costume,A preacher, a sinner, a sage,Some plead for pleasure,Some howl with rage. A thousand selves parade through me,Each claiming: “I am the real.”But they vanish like smoke in sunlight,Their voices too fleeting to feel. The addict knocks with trembling hands,The monk returns with grace,The doubter questions everything,The lover yearns for a …
