Tag: Thoughts

Why glorify the label of [artist/warrior/spiritual/etc.]?  Why not just sacrifice or indulge short-term comfort for long-term fulfillment, as well as sacrifice or indulge any paradigm or dogma that will propagate long-term fulfillment? In this way, one simply solves problems and glimpses the deeper truths that arise from function.  Other people may or may not assign…

When I think deeply on the “mundane” or the “trivial,” I find that the lessons I take from these supposedly irrelevant phenomena apply to the “grandiose” and the “mystical.”   And in this humbling of perception, I experience a leveling of my soul, where I can enjoy the beauty in pain, the sorrow in beauty, and—if…

I have experimented with hardship and I have experimented with indolence.  I performed these experiments in my younger days, when I cared greatly about what society thought about me.  Now, as I get older, I don’t care so much, and I have found myself experimenting with a new state.   I call it “harmony.”

In the past, I have found myself in the grip of behaviors that cause me to wonder “why did I act that way?  I knew that the outcome would be undesirable.”  I began to realize, only after sufficient introspection, that if I don’t acknowledge my tendencies and the reasons behind them, I might as well…

It seems that no matter how much outward fortune we manage to accrue, we all will be tested; we will continually be challenged to carve new meaning from our lives.  From what I’ve seen, rising to the occasion again and again seems to be one of the most cathartic things someone can do.