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Patterns

Voices of the Past

May 9, 2024

Who are we, without even knowing it? How many people speak with our voices, think with our minds, quietly guide our beliefs and our actions? If we dig a little deeper into our identity, we’re likely to find our parents’ …

Patterns

Action and Reaction

February 22, 2024

In physics, every action has an equal and opposite reaction; the same applies to the realm of the mind.  Every thought you nurture, especially profound beliefs and openly expressed convictions, will create both its intended result and its conceptual opposite, …

Patterns

About Focus

January 7, 2024

Focus is the ability to ignore all signals save one. Your mental capacity stays unchanged, but it’s solely focused on one objective. Focus runs on emotions and excitement, not willpower. If you need to force yourself to pay attention, your …

Patterns

Honor Your Gift

December 29, 2023

Those born with exceptional traits often remain unaware of them until adulthood, as we tend to take our own mental and physical capabilities for granted and assume everyone else is the same. What is a gift? It is an innate …

Patterns

Don’t Tell Me What I Think

March 9, 2023

Maintaining control over your mind when the latter is challenged in the battle of influences, inducements and restrictions we call daily life is a critical survival skill. People fight to win this battle because they don’t understand eliminating mental spam …

Patterns

An Imperfect Order

June 19, 2021

By definition, order is the state in which everything is in its correct or appropriate state. That is just one of the many meanings of the word, and a misinterpreted one. Our love for symmetry, our desire to complete the …

Haiku

Light

January 19, 2024
Trying to tarnish light will only train its essence  on your own decay.
Haiku

Total Recall

January 7, 2024
One memory holds all the light and the wonder of being a child.
Practice

Nondominant Hand Writing

December 30, 2023
Sit in a quiet place, let your mind wander and write down your thoughts using your nondominant hand. Don’t try to formulate coherent concepts, just write down the first words that come to mind, with no regard for grammar or ...
Haiku

Reality

December 30, 2023
Everything you see as solid reality expresses your soul.
Stories

On the Creative Process

December 29, 2023
When you listen to a beautiful piece of music, read something inspiring or stand in awe in front of a painting that lays all the beauty of existence before your eyes, you imagine the act of creation must be like ...
Haiku

Grief

August 1, 2023
How lost would you get, in your moments of sorrow, to hide from yourself?
Patterns

Child Themes

March 16, 2023
Intent is not precise, nor is it linear, it loosely aims for the direction you plan while bringing about many echoes, counterpoints, and unintended results.  Their effects continue long after the flame of their original intent has died out, often ...
Patterns

Our Inner Worlds

March 4, 2023
Where are you right now?  You may think you are at home, tending to mundane activities, but part of you is still at work, unable to let go of the problem you’re trying to solve, at the beach, dreaming of ...
Haiku

Betrayal

March 2, 2023
Betrayal is sweet: a lethal poison posing as a honeycomb.
Stories

Just Patterns Repeating

February 19, 2023
As we grow old, we look back on our experiences and realize how repetitive life is, both in the personal and in the social realm. We understand the only reason we thought we had new and unrepeatable fates was because ...
Patterns

Earning It

February 14, 2023
Understanding is a tough mistress who makes you deserve her favor: it demands focus, effort, humility, time and patience. Whether gained through years of painstaking trial and error or learned from other people’s experiences, there is no shortcut to knowledge.  ...
Haiku

Mirage

February 12, 2023
What burden of proof will dismantle reason’s faith in the wrong answer?
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