My mother belongs to the fear I was needing, interlocking arms with white bags. Today has everything I need – wet clothes, pillowcases, liquor, eyelashes, and chemicals. Excuse the scars. Ducking, jumping, terrible things I…
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Standing out is no longer optional
“The danger of overstimulation and external voices will erode one’s core and necessitate the natural desire to compare and copy, which leads to living life from an “outside-in” point of view. I believe your lifestyle…
Can you ever have an original thought?
Your coffee contemplation today: “In a mutually interdependent world, none of us has absolute control over everything we choose to do. You are either being influenced by others or exerting influence simply by being who…
A Statement and a Question
I felt a bit scrappy this morning along with an incredible urge to walk around naked. There must have been something in my coffee to trigger a primal reaction. Having watched Hamilton over the weekend,…
The Four Agreements
In this week’s episode of the podcast, we share our thoughts on Don Miguel Ruiz’s thoughtful book, The Four Agreements. I’ve read the book several times now. Sarah is on her first pass of the…
Self-Acceptance
Excited to have as my guest host, Victoria James, founder of Mindflowers, in the studio with us to talk about self-importance and how mastering it will boost your authentic happiness by a factor of 10.
Battleground God
Let’s play a game… Battleground God – Do your beliefs about religion and god stand up to philosophical scrutiny? Begin
I can’t wait to go hog wild again
I’m slowing beginning to re-emerge from my wounded cocoon. Mobility in my right hand is edging along nicely, range of motion increasing each day since my release from the day ward. Of course I want…
Culture of conformity
“The point of uniforms is to make everything outwardly the same and, if possible, by a knock-on psychological effect inwardly the same too.” – from Journeys of an Underground Philosopher I reject conformity, yet I…
Stealing from Hermann Hesse on destiny
Stealing from Hermann Hesse… He wrote that each person has only one genuine vocation and that is to find the way to themselves, to discover their own destiny – not an arbitrary one – and…
Death in 3 Parts
Part 1 – Gripping us by the throat Part 2 – a meditation Part 3 – As if it was your last
There’s no honest way to explain it
“The Edge… There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others — the living — are those…
In-between are the doors
Here’s a challenge for you this week.
Are You Feeling Ok?
The haunting voices in Pink Floyd’s song, Bring The Boys Back Home, are echoing in my mind this morning: wrong, do it again time to go are you feeling ok? there’s a man answering, but…
What’s Making Your Life Interesting at the Moment?
And hopefully it’s not just Game of Thrones! …not that there’s anything wrong with that!
Incremental Change
Incremental change… is a process that adjusts the status quo via minor changes. Think of Incremental change as a series of small steps, with no single step taking up too much time. I know there…
Dark Knight of the Soul
(1) That’s right, nobody is coming to rescue you. I have to remind myself of that from time to time. It means, if you want to change your situation, if you want to make life…
Simple Lifehack to Achieve Success Faster |Morning Notes 004
Beautiful morning for a walk – blue skies, sun, birds singing and all of that. On my mind this morning was a simple formula I use to keep me on the success path. Much love,…