Tag: Surrender
An Open Letter to My Anger
Yes, I admit it. I have anger issues, not yet out of hand, but its easy to set me off. This is a letter...
McGee’s Guillotine: Beheading the Irrational
"To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day." ~ Lao Tzu McGee’s guillotine is an addendum to Occam’s...
Five Ways to Rewild the World
“Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God, and the only living thing that behaves like it doesn’t have one.”...
The Art of Losing Control: The Power of Ecstatic Experience
"To be modern is to let imagination and invention do a lot of the work once done by tradition and ritual." ~ Adam Gopnik Some...
The Power of Latifa: An Ancient Sufi Prayer to Reveal Your...
The Latifa is an ancient Sufi prayer that connects us with the essence of our being. It brings us closer to our (higher) Self,...
Utilizing the Niyamas as a Path for Personal Growth
The second limb of Yoga in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras is the practice of Niyamas, or personal observances. Where the Yamas are a series of...
The Nous & the Noose: Achieving Enlightenment Through Philosophical Contemplation
"We ought not even say that he will see, but he will be that which he sees, if indeed it is possible any longer...
The Spiral of Life: Why We Keep Coming Back to the...
"The path isn't a straight line; it's a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths." ~...
6 Ways to Find Freedom by Surrendering to the Moment
“She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for...
Random Enlightenment
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...
