Kent Wayne

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  • Musings

    In the aspiration to improve ourselves, Existence will throw every kind of obstacle at us, and we are able to handle all of them.  From external misfortunes to our own simple laziness and complacency, we will face all of it, and in growing caliber.  I don’t believe in using anger and resentment to triumph, (though…

  • Musings

    Oppression through the guise of rules/laws/society reaches back to the dawn of humanity, but just as far-reaching is humanity’s unstoppable drive to escape—to be free.  As we evolve in our efforts to defeat oppression, the beings we become in the process shine with ever-increasing light… And the fact that we were always meant to be…

  • Echo-A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

    I’m at a quiet coffee house, plinking away at my story.  A bunch of young, twenty-something-year-old entitled drunks wander in, and every third sound out of their mouth is, “WHOOOO!!!”  Annoyed, I open my eReader to Echo, and it flashes with magic light.  Clint Eastwood’s character from Gran Torino appears, only he has a jedi robe…

  • Musings

    Start with 50 words/day, 10 even.  Keep it steady and it will naturally become 100,500,1000…but the key is to start—and to keep it steady. This isn’t just about writing.

  • Musings

    Much has been made of outward sharpness; clothes, cars, houses…but those symbols are to impress other humans.  Constantly though, I see well-dressed, appearance-oriented people fail to show up on time, fail to fulfill resolutions, fail to go through the sacrament of daily discipline.  I place emphasis on consistent, sustainable results—not dress, and not even action.  I believe results…

  • Musings

    The move toward complexity is a natural process of evolution/innovation.  To delve into that, to learn from it, to then turn around and reiterate it into simplicity…that is the divine quest we may very well have been made for.

  • Musings

    Monks have known for awhile that whatever the activity may be, purity of concentration is inherently ecstatic.  So wherever you are, whatever you do, however much you like or don’t like what’s going on… Focus.

  • Echo-A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

    I’m surrounded by a mob of extreme athletes.  They keep shouting, “EXTREME!” then chugging a mountain dew and crushing it on their foreheads.  They’re getting the stuff all over me.  Annoyed, I open my eReader to Echo and it flashes with magic light.  A swarm of bees appears over the horizon, and out of nowhere,…

  • Musings

    The poetic ecstasy of life is not found in mastering structure for comfort’s sake so that one can stamp an action or form with the label of “proper.”  No, that exalted poetry is found when structure is used for the sake of illumination, to invoke that wild lift of spirit that invigorates—that INSPIRES.  To all the staid academics…

  • Musings

    In the absence of a clear-cut calling, practice being excellent at whatever is in front of you.  That way, when your calling appears, you will be properly trained.