Joan Didion On Death
As I approached the casket, my eyes were fixed on my father lying there, gently cradled between the wooden frames. A part of me couldn’t help but believe that he would suddenly rise from his eternal sleep, as if his departure was simply a fleeting illusion in a cosmic dream. But as I stood there, […]
Henry David Thoreau On Death
Most people know that we must follow our divine path. However, there are moments when, listening to other people’s story, we grow weary of our path. We live constantly watching the lives of other people. One must learn to live devoted to his own life. Although this knowledge sits within my mind I collapsed from […]
Joan Didion On Grief.
We create an addictive life by not using our discipline, strength, and faith. Our addictions manifest as fear, procrastination, and doubt. We must learn to choose mastery. I am a young man from Hope, Arkansas. I have never seen anyone live their life through their dreams; I have never seen anyone choose mastery. However, like […]
Henry David Thoreau On Friendship
Without my friends I would be dead. Although, since they always tell me about my life or death mindset let me be a little more realistic, I would be confused about the trauma I’ve overcome, discourage in facing problems I’ve dealt with many times, hopeless over the necessity to always fight for a better life. […]
Henry David Thoreau On Living Presently.
Man is forced to confront himself when every distraction is gone. Man can only hear himself when every addiction is placed to the side. Being blinded by our addictions, and limited by our self imposed prisons we forget our beauty. We forget the power in our tongue, and value of our being. The only reality […]
Henry David Thoreau On Aspiring Towards A Greater Life.
We must pursue our dreams, and devote our time to deepening our relationship to God. Success comes to the stubborn man, for the universe’s wealth shall raise him up. Against all fears of poverty and failure one must move toward our dreams. However, we must be honest, we know the people hiding behind the masks […]
Henry David Thoreau On Yoga.
The aim of a Yogi is developing a new relationship to the world. For the man that lives through the 5 senses experiences a life beyond heaven, we become like Dante, but the journey is one through the soul. Yogi’s do not live perfect lives, but in pursuing the enlightened path we aim at remembering […]
Henry David Thoreau On Love.
The most valuable aspect of friendship, literature, and every spontaneous, and unexpected, furrawn is that strangers slowly pull away the veil of anonymity. Conversations providing insight into our psychology is a banality, but meditation is the root of all conversations. When we converse deeply, honestly, and without distractions we are listening to ourselves just as […]
Joseph Campbell On Spiritual Rebirth
Sometimes the only way to recognize we’ve aged is through the news of a baby cousins graduation, random aches throughout the body, and photographs that moments trapped in memory. Photographs reveal the illusive nature of time; revealing that with every choice we make the earth shall continue to spin around the sun. I found a […]
Joseph Campbell On Bliss
Most people spend their days doing meaningless activities. Few people have learned to spend their time on a craft that demands our highest selves. We’ve forgotten our beauty. Which leads us to always begging for the eyes of people to save us. As we discover our lives have no purpose we grow wearier and wearier […]