The pursuit of enlightenment
In our world, gates abound, signifying difference and separation. They come in various forms, such as the physical barriers of the wealthy, the spiritual gates of heaven, or even the internal barriers that exist between individuals. Despite these divisions, there is a common thread among us all – the pursuit of enlightenment and the desire […]
Alain De Botton On Acceptance
What makes us worthy of receiving love when we are crippled by our anxieties. Overwhelmed by our fears, living routinely within mistakes, and our doubts prevent the blossoming of our ambition. Because we have so little love for ourselves we continue chasing people that offer unrequited love. Hoping forever that this angel will provide us […]
Tenzin Rinpoche on Karma
There is much to be said in the belief that our response to suffering, blessings, heartbreak, and, especially, love form our future. During the first love of my life I expected there would never come a moment where lovers could become strangers, but I was sickened to find that I was not immune to heartbreak. […]
Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire; Answers from the most important cultural figures of a generation.
A parlor game popularized (though not devised) by Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist, who believed that, in answering these questions, an individual reveals his or her true nature. Long before becoming one of the greatest human beings to touch a pen, Marcel Proust probed his psyche as many have done after him. Vanity […]
Lorraine Hansberry on being honest about the miseries that afflict the world.
Man’s mission is to tell the truth about the complexity of our lives, to reveal all the promises, to ourselves, broken in silence, and become honest about the intricate emotions happening inside us; there is nothing more difficult than being honest with oneself. Any man that decides to contribute his mind and heart to evolution […]
Joan Didion on Self-Respect
Joan Didion captures, in her beautiful slender collection of essays, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, the eternal truth that living authentically comes from releasing self-imposed deception, she says, “Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself”. This quote is a isolated fragment from a masterpiece expressing our tendency to cling onto illusion, […]
Patience in the Underground
We can not live without constantly becoming acquainted with patience; the sun can not set, sleep cannot be allowed, the blossoming of our being cannot move deeper into ourselves while ascending to heaven without patience. We must work diligently on becoming patient with endings and beginnings; our lives are a constant set of new beginnings, […]
Listen to the muses, the spirits, and your internal voice.
Homer invoked the muses, Aset was called when the limp needed healing, Michael restored Daniels strength; we call it divine inspiration. These stories are a stylization of life; these myths help us on our personal path to supreme internal meaning. All these instances of Godly inspiration and Divine assistance are attempts– by something both internal […]