I haven’t posted anything in a while. I am aware of that, and I’ve really been itching to get to it. I’ve just been busy. Life has me pointed in a lot of interesting directions right now. I’m learning a lot of new things, and I’ve gotten busy doing that. I still screw off quite…

Value lies in potential. It’s not what I’ve done in life that determines my value or my self-worth. It’s what I’m going to do that determines those things. Likewise, it’s not what I’ve done that determines whether I am “good” or “bad.” It’s what I’m going to do next that determines that. Change happens now.…

I think we test each other’s authenticity and vulnerability every time we interact. One person shares a small part of themselves. They offer a little authenticity. The other person then has a choice. They can ignore it. They can judge it. They can change the subject. They can use it against them later. Or they…

The reason I meditate daily, as I’ve written before, is because it clarifies the path to internal peace for me. When I notice I don’t have peace internally, I know where to look. My spiritual practice has made that path well worn. It’s familiar now. Peace is generated internally—in that direction. The physical world, on…

Once I had a spiritual awakening, everything suddenly shifted for me. Before that, I was only aware of the world on the front side of my eyeballs. The Tao describes it as the Ten Thousand Things. I’ve also heard it described as the place of “sharp edges and twisted knots.” That’s the world on the…

There was this thing that happened to me that suddenly changed everything. It happened when I was at Save A Warrior. I was given a certain number of questions of a spiritual nature to ponder. Questions to consider and sit with. It was as if I were looking down at all these spiritual questions as…

As I went through recovery for Complex PTS, which I’m still going through, actually, I changed my relationships. At one point, I realized in an instant that all of the good things I’d been searching for in life rested in a place where I had made no investments my entire life. I had made no…

When I was at my cohort, I knew I belonged there. I was very suicidal in my thinking and felt as if I’d been “caught” being there, having hidden my constant suicidal thoughts from the world. I never admitted that I was suicidal to anyone, either, because I considered it to be a weakness of…

Over the past few years, I’ve been mentally open to new ideas. I used to be very closed-minded, sure that no matter what the topic was, I had a firm grip on “the truth,” or at least had very strong opinions about it. I felt I had the right religion, had the correct political beliefs,…