Tag: Comfort Zone
Broken Compasses, Bullshit-meters, and Question-mark Swords
“We should go and proclaim without cease and remind people at every step of what we are: that our capacity for self-delusion...
7 Signs You May Be an Apocaloptimist
“Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another and can illuminate thousands...
The Unsacred Clown and The Death of the Sacred
“Man is a polluted river. One must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled.” ~ Nietzsche
We are living in the...
Five Steps to Overcome Self-Sabotage
“Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.”~ Roy Bennett
The Inverted Tree and the Mystery of Reversed Kundalini
“We are composed of agonies not polarities.” ~ James Hillman
The Inverted tree (arbor inversa), rooted in the heavens and flourishing earthward, is an archetypal...
The Philosophical Wrecking Ball: Protecting Us from Our Yearning for Certainty
“What I understand of “philosopher”: a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.” ~ Nietzsche
The thing that makes philosophy useful...
3 Ways to Escape the Default-Setting
"The alternative is unconsciousness, the default-setting, the "rat race" — the constant gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing." ~ David...
Heyoka Evolving: Updating Outdated Mythos
“As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark...
Failure as a Conduit to Fearlessness
“We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.” ~ Pema ChödrönIn a risk-averse and failure-averse culture, people unconsciously live out fear-based lifestyles at the expense...
Applying the 12 Steps of the Hero’s Journey in Your Life
Around 70 years ago Joseph Campbell in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces put forth a simple suggestion that every hero that exists in mythology or that will come into existence follows a similar pattern.
"A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region...
Leaving Not A Trace: How To Reduce Your Carbon And Currency...
“Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.”
~ Mahatma GandhiTen years ago it may have been extremely difficult to exist in this materialistic world without recurring a huge carbon and currency footprint. In...