two steps

offer no resistance

pledge no allegiance

poverty

I always forget that the lesson in Ghandi’s sparse possessions, his spectacles, his bowl

wasn’t that he needed nothing

it was that he had everything

rest

imagine how important rest is

now times it by 10

now by 1000

now by infinity²

you’re getting close.

Wings

You haven’t begun to understand* what surrender looks like.

*on a positive note, I don’t think it’ll be about ‘understanding’ anymore.

Another Choice to Make

If you're concerned you might regret your decision, make the decision anyway.

Then choose not to regret it.

my bones speak

tell their rich story

of exquisite form

and elegant function

How much Resistance appears alongside your Freedom?

Half it.

Now half it again.

You get the idea.

The Oasis will appear once you create it.

Location, Location, Location

I don’t think I’ll someday float on a cloud

or be licked by

orange-red flames.

I think Heaven and Hell are here right Now.

I try to choose wisely.

The more you can receive the more you will receive.

You have to make space for it.

when thinking about it is pleasant,

it’s even more important to experience it,

rather than think about it

Start from a place of alignment and everything else will follow suit.

Broken

things

have

value.

I'm wondering...

If you can’t share something, maybe it’s not really yours.

Fact Checking the Masters’ Stories: One

Self-doubt is not a tsunami that sweeps you up, threatens to crack you into a thousand tiny fragments and turn your refined gait into a jerky mess, and then finally departs, forever vanquished, into the ethers, leaving you under a fig tree to enjoy enlightenment.

Self-doubt lives in every moment, it inhabits the very triumphs it denounces. This, cohabitating with Mara, is the enlightenment Siddhartha enjoyed. It’s yours too, and mine.

Welcome to The Paradox, baby!

choose

prisms

over

mirrors