“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.” Swami Sivananda
Posted in Random, Reality, Humanity, Rambling on Sep 4th, 2009
Some pain is physical. Some pain is mental. Some pain is spiritual. Some pain goes so deep that it shatters your heart and strips you of your sense of self. You want to cease to be but all you can do is breathe between the streams of tears and agonizing woes. They tell you “just […]
Posted in Random, Reality, Humanity, Rambling on Jul 26th, 2009
If you already know the ending can you prevent it from happening? Can you change it? Or are you only able to temporarily prevent the inevitable? And is attempting to prevent the inevitable a form of foolish ignorance?
What keeps the clock ticking?
Relationships are time-bombs waiting to explode. It takes time to get close enough to […]
Posted in Random, Reality, Humanity, Rambling, Education on Jul 14th, 2009
I happened to stumble upon the writer William Arthur Ward and wanted to share some of his quotes that really sunk deep into my thoughts and perspective on my life and the influence my life has and/or can have on others…
“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like […]
Posted in Random, Reality, Humanity, Rambling on Apr 5th, 2009
Isaiah 63:3-5
“I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me… And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold; therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.”
Posted in Random, Reality, Humanity, Rambling, Education on Mar 7th, 2009
Do you ever hear a whisper in the wind telling you that not everything is as it seems? The Dalai Lama once said, “Life is not an illusion; rather, it is like an illusion.” I did a meditation journal last semester for one of my philosophy classes on the Buddha and the Dalai Lama and […]
I feel as if life is a single grain of sand and we are approaching the fall to the other side of the hourglass. We are running out of time and have become so overturned that we are at a point where we can no longer tell which way is out. A single grain of […]
It is following me from sunrise to sunset, but I do not acknowledge the silhouette beside me imitating my every move. This mime has no painted face, no definite shape, and its gestures change with every move I make. This figure that follows me with every ray of light can only be […]