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The Hardest Law There Is.

The Universal Law of Reflection is the most powerful experience and insight there is. It has a healing and destroying power. But if it heals us, it means we're stronger than we ever have been. And if it destroys, then it means we have another lesson to learn. Either way, it's great, because ...

fiction

Away From Home. {fiction}

“Where are you going?” she asks. Mark looks into the darkness in front of him; the bright road lines on the highway are clear only for a few feet in front of the truck before they disappear into the night. “Same place you are,” he answers, and he just keeps driving.

poetry

When You Smile. {poetry}

My bloodstream is full of your smile, Like Ichor in god’s veins. It pumps into my heart to bring life to every corner of my body.

wisdom

The Relentlessness Of Chronic Fatigue: Why We Are Brave To Keep Resting.

I feel scared of the intensity of my experience, but I also feel scared of the unknown, the future down the road. I feel scared of what will happen later on if I feel this ill now -- the ironic and hilarious quality of anxiety that stops me from resting and takes me out of my present and into a ...

wisdom

How To Quit… And Why You Should.

The temporary 'high', or brief relief that we experience from the wine, cigarette or doughnut is really just a feeling of 'less bad', which is very different from actually 'feeling good'. Buddhists call this confusing suffering for happiness.

poetry

Create Love, Not War. {poetry}

If I were to pray My prayers would be for you You are loved so much

art

A Writer’s Dilemma: Do We Fear Balance?

When I asked my Ayurvedic practitioner if, once balanced, I would lose the ability to write, she assured me that, on the contrary, I would uncover a deeper story within, that of my true self emerging. That sounds nice to me. But, even if that doesn’t happen, even if I never write another word ...

you & me

Love Letters: A Poem In 11 Parts. {prose poetry}

We were sitting in the student union, on those wood benches, heads bent over paper napkins with pictures drawn in dark pencil. Your hair was longer than mine, and my learned defiance was large as continents. And there were symbols sketched, that would become ink branded forever on skin, that ...

poetry

The Difference Between Happiness And Joy. {poetry}

Do I throw away the egg, saying: No, I wanted a bird? A bird of paradise And not this round brown thing Do I miss out on the big picture Because I am in pursuit of perfection?

happiness

When You’re Happy And You (Don’t) Know It…

You look at yourself, and realize that while you were busy entrusting the Universe with your happiness, the Universe, in all its wisdom, had been busy setting up these tests to make sure you can actually implement all that you’ve been observing along the way, and not just being theoretically ...

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