We are up against seemingly...SEEMINGLY a huge obstacle. This construct is the idea of a progressive "me" as the entity going through life, searching, trying to find a strategy to get to a place of ultimate rest. But all of that movement is happening in the land of relativity ( Read more... )

• "When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two."
• "The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live."                                             ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I've been feeling somewhat apathetic lately...Which is strange, because I have an adventure on the horizon. I'm going up to Alaska, of all places, to work for a seafood packing company for the summer. Make a wad of cash, see a new spot on the map. I should be thrilled, and I am...Sometimes. And afterwards, I'm planning on heading down to Mexico - I ( Read more... )

Resolution #2: Put Together my Life's Goal

For nearly a decade I've been vascillating between ideas and career paths. I've mixed and matched all kinds of lifestyles, trying to make my dreams manifest. Something we all do, really, so I don't pretend my path is anything more special than anyone else's. But I *do* think I might have found a winning ( Read more... )

Well, it looks like this is it, for now, China. You and I have had a very interesting relationship from the moment I've gotten here. As always, when I'm about to leave a place I start to become pretty introspective. Well, or about to arrive at place as well. Well, okay, pretty much all the time but especially when I'm about to leave a place. It ( Read more... )

Fuck, I don't know. What's your purpose? Good question, David. Is there an answer? Ah well...Time for a run!

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Well, it looks like J and I aren't happening for a bit after all. Which is sad, because I'm really tired of falling into the same patterns I always do. Every time I think "this time will be different," I end up sliding right back into my familiar orbit of long-distance pen-pal with the occasional flirtation with "what if?" For various reasons. I'd ( Read more... )

....By moving above all of that and finding more important things to be concerned with...

"Happiness is a benign god or a divine blessing. Why then, my imagination, are you doing what you do? Go away, in the god's name, the way you came: I have no need of you. You have come in your old habit. I am not angry with you. Only go away." ~ Marcus Aurelius