"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." - Rumi
The practice of mindfulness helps you to develop an awareness of your place in the world and your reactions to your experiences.
The practice of mindfulness helps you to develop an awareness of your place in the world and your reactions to your experiences.
Mindfulness Circle
New to This
Dear Diary, I'm new to this platform so it's going to take getting used to. Life is crazy but, 2022 has gotten off to a rocky and not fun start for me and it should be the best year yet is my hope because I'm getting married this November. I've been blessed in so…
Sunday
Yesterday we had nice weather for what feels like the first time all year. Well, that definitely isn't true, but it's the first day I took advantage of it. I went outside to read my book and just stayed out there for hours. Even after I finished reading, I just stared out at the grass,…
Where my life is at right now
Ok so I have just had a read through my last few entries from 4 years ago! Wow. I think it would be good to do a little update on where my life is at the moment. So I am now 42 - how did that happen? That feels crazy to me. I am officially…
How to vanquish foes
PTSD Recovery: I can love the enemy I just killed. I’ve had practice. Thank you, America. Advanced PTSD Recovery: I can love the fabulous fuck up that killed my friend, who went in my stead. Thanks Warthog pilot. Survivor guilt is an advanced course, and it fucked me up. You taught me well, t...
Truth
No one was ever protected with a lie. At best, it postpones the pain and robs me of the dignity of the grace I could exhibit if I`m wise enough. Do not lie and say it is for my benefit. I confront my demons and if you see one and warn me not, whose side…
Today’s ablution
I once after coming back from some difficult but not life threatening maneuvers to train against the threat of Ivan Drago pouring through the Fulda gap. Now the boom shelters to us as kids was just where we went to watch movies on Thursdays down in the basement of the school which was by the&hel...
Be Clueful, not rueful…
To rue the day is at least to consider the folly of the choices what brung you to the day in question. It is a start. But advanced users can look to the future and easily predict so many many things that most accidents are truly negligence, but we all help hide the bodies one…
The loss of the feminine
It is difficult to say the least to come finally to the realization the flaw goes back so incredibly far. We have known for so long that it was at least an early symptom but we have now cone to formally state the prime error and to hypothesize how we can use that knowledge to…
On Maximizing Understanding thru Fractals
The Fractal. It is an amazing representation of mathematical recursion, but it is not just a pretty face. It is the secret to being able to access you memory in functional ways, I think. It is the secret to understanding life in a holistic way. Anecdotally, it seems obvious to me and has for ...
Think Big or Small
Think small, achieve small, think big, achieve big. If you think small, you don't deserve to achieve big things, you deserve to achieve small things because that's the small sum of your thoughts, if you think big, you deserve to achieve big things, you deserve to achieve big things because that's...