Category: Truth
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The Forgotten Sun
I have a suspicion. Not about ancient wisdom. About ourselves. I suspect most people spend the first decade of their lives becoming who they are… …and the next several decades becoming someone else. Not intentionally. Lovingly. Patiently. Almost invisibly. We begin life remarkably authentic. Watch a young child long enough and you’ll notice something adults…
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Belonging
A young working mom stayed after yoga recently to share something that has lingered with me ever since. She told me she begins each day by repeating four words to herself. Words that remind her who she wants to be. One of those words is strong. Then she smiled and admitted something that seemed almost contradictory.…
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Where Does Their Energy Come From?
I was sitting at a stoplight when something unexpectedly caught my attention. In the distance, I could see the staircase leading up to one of the giant water slides at our local amusement park. Halfway up, a little girl stood waiting her turn. She wasn’t impatient. She wasn’t staring at the people ahead of her.…
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Identity
I’ve been thinking about the word identity lately. It’s one of those words we rarely question. We’re told to find it.Protect it.Express it.Stay true to it. But what if we’ve misunderstood what identity is for? I wonder if one of the greatest sources of suffering is that we build our identity around the last place we stopped…
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The Light the Branches Seek
What Truth Actually Is In my last essay, I proposed that wisdom grows sideways. Not upward. Not through certainty. Not through accumulating answers. But through branching. Through curiosity. Through the willingness to remain open long enough for new perspectives to emerge. But that leaves an obvious question. What are the branches reaching toward? What is…
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Part 10 – Enoughness
Most humans never reach enoughness. Not because they are incapable of it… but because modern culture quietly depends on them never arriving there. Not successful enough.Not attractive enough.Not healed enough.Not productive enough.Not spiritual enough.Not important enough. So people spend years—sometimes entire lifetimes—trying to earn a feeling that never fully comes. And eventually the nervous system…
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Part 7 – The Carrying Cost of Judgment
Judgment has a carrying cost. Are you sure you want to afford it for every person you secretly resent? Because most people think judgment is something directed outward. But in many ways, the heavier burden is carried internally by the person holding it. The moment you quietly dislike someone while pretending otherwise, your nervous system…
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Part 5 – The Yamas Were Never Rules
Most people have never even heard of the Yamas and Niyamas. Even many people who practice yoga regularly. Somewhere along the way, modern yoga became almost entirely associated with movement—poses, stretching, mobility, fitness, appearance. But beneath the physical practice sits one of the oldest psychological and philosophical frameworks ever created. The Yamas and Niyamas. And…
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Flappability, Curiosity, and the Witness
Want to know one of the clearest signals of someone operating at a higher level? Flappability… or rather, how unflappable they are. Look—we all get flapped. You’re not living in the real soup of modern life if you don’t get flapped on a regular basis. Getting flapped is not the point. The question is—how long…
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Trade FOMO for Curiosity
Trade your FOMO… for more FAFO. Fear of missing out sounds harmless. But it keeps you… watching. What are they doing?Where should I be?Am I getting this right? That’s not curiosity. That’s self-surveillance. Curiosity feels different. It doesn’t ask, “What’s the right move?”It asks, “What happens if I try this?” Nature never evolved by waiting…