heart to heart

I’m not there. Yet. Arguably will never be. In fact, to not be a contradiction, I would have to conclude that I’ll never be there. But, that’s not the point. The point is that you try. Ever really think about …

We equate control with results. A natural product of this belief is that to achieve our desired objective, we need to have a strong contributory impact on the process. It’s a reasonable and rational belief. Leveling the weight of input …

“Be in the now”, “live in the now”, “be present’; modern day consumable mantra for the masses. Governance of the soul that is literally eons old. The Buddha spoke of it, Alan Watts narrated it, Eckhart Tolle authors upon it. …

To be yourself, or not to be yourself?…. Somewhere, probably a long while ago, something didn’t go the way you’d hoped it would; or, the way you thought it would. Likely, more than once. A bunch of times, I would …

Technically, I’m late. Some time ago, I’d made a commitment to myself that I would write every Sunday; it was my pledge. To do so, meant something for me. For what I believed in. And, somewhere inside of me, there …

I’m a little embarrassed by this one. Like the, “it was so obvious, I can’t believe it took me this long to figure it out” type of embarrassed. I’ll explain. Be Yourself A timeless idiom if there ever was one. …

Being in your Heart is work. I want to say it’s not; I want to think it’s not; I want to believe it’s not. But, I can’t. Work isn’t a bad thing, but it’s not an easy thing. I can …

“You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And, I promise you, something great will come of it”. We Bought a Zoo I like that movie. It may …

We’re all broken. Broken is real. It can be confusing. It can be misunderstood. And, it can be simply debilitating. There’s no instruction manual for broken; it’s not as though we get put back together again as if we’d never …

We search for what is but a stone’s throw away. Stones we cast that break the glass we can’t bear to look through. Eyes that reflect blindness. The stillness is where all is seen without seeing. There, it is calm. …