Are you afraid of your own shadow? I’m not talking about the silhouette of yours on the ground; I’m talking about the psychological shadow. In Jungian psychology, the shadow is the collection of aspects of yourself that you deem unwanted or undesirable and hide deep in the caverns of your Read more…
“If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth–certainly the machine will wear out… but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, Read more…
Bold statement: Fiction can be a more effective teacher than nonfiction. The epics, the classic myths, the primordial fables, the transcendent archetypes and the phenomenon of story have all been omnipresent undertones of human culture since time immemorial. Fiction has the unique ability in which one can use words as Read more…
When I started Feelin’ Good Feelin’ Great, I was in denial… I believed that positivity consisted on only focusing on “positive” things and ignoring everything “negative.” So that’s how I lived my life. I dodged my shadows and avoided my own darkness, then wondered why I felt confined and limited. Read more…
Much of Zen Buddhism is purposely paradoxical and riddled with absurdities. Its purpose is not to get you to think, but to get you to NOT THINK. The ludicrous language that often characterizes Zen poetry is designed to shatter your egoic, conceited notions of knowing, well, anything. This leaves you Read more…
How are you going to really wrap your head around something that you can’t put into words? Well, you inherently can’t. Those mysterious inklings that you subtly feel, but can’t quite express, are vague phantasms floating right outside of your realm of possibility. The envelope of your reality, the outer Read more…
As humans, we have an insatiable desire for freedom. It’s only natural. Freedom is our essential state and we feel this in the innermost depths of our being. When freedom is blatantly denied, it is an excruciating hindrance and not tolerated for long. However, every great truth is paradoxical from Read more…
I looked up at the diving board. It was a proud blue piece of art that stood eight feet above the water. The sun was shining brightly overhead as I observed a young man bounce off of the beautiful blue plank and execute a graceful swan dive, landing in the Read more…