Tag: Thoughts

I believe love for oneself means being willing to push others away. Not cut them off necessarily, but clearly communicating what isn’t acceptable. Ironically, more often than not, it’s done wonders for a given relationship. But if I try to keep a relationship through clingy appeasement, it typically fades due to increasingly begrudging erosion of…

I’ve shifted away from associating abundance with time and resources, to associating abundance with infinite possibility. The idea that something good can come from something bad, that someone can turn mistakes into wins, and that a seemingly hopeless situation can resolve into unexpected delight.

For me, drafting is about consistency–hitting a word count or set amount of time. Editing, however, is about quality and refinement–going over the manuscript again and again until the ideas and descriptions are as clear and crystalline as I can make them at that time. So I don’t really see it as being a “good”…

“Writing what you know” is a great place to start. For me, personally, it’s not a great place to stay. I like to write about giant robots, enchanted swords, and psychedelic blends of magic and machines. I’ve never had experience with any of those things. I’d rather write about what I resonate with, in full…

Strangely (or maybe not), it seems that if I allow my internal reaction to something, it leads to peace with the very thing itself. That doesn’t necessarily mean I endorse or agree with it, but that I live my life without spending effort and focus on internal rejection, even if I outwardly (and ironically) have…

Eventually, with enough time on a designated path, I believe it will lead to the realization that one must blaze their own trail.

I think of challenges as dips in the road. If I hit them at the right angle and speed, I get to fly for a bit, maybe shift over onto a better track. I also might crash and get stuck, but maybe I can dig up a diamond or find something cool on the pavement…

While acknowledging an outcome, I find it useful to internally allow my emotional reaction to that outcome, even if it’s an antagonistic expression, such as anger or avoidance. If I try to jump straight to acceptance, I often leave an unresolved tangle of conflicting emotions, which nag and exhaust me if I fail to process…

For the sake of logic (based on my suspected premise that reality, at its core, is nondual consciousness) I like to entertain the idea of a higher or deeper self: an aspect of individuality that isn’t bound by time and space, that communicates more through intuition and synchronicity than right-angled thought. It’s how I differentiate…

Early on, I found the concept of dominance useful. That began to chance when I shifted my focus onto “mastery.” Then, much to my chagrin, I realized that mastery, with its connotation of masters and non-masters, still trapped me in the same hierarchical dynamic. Nowadays, I try to simply be present and allow for the…