Everybody is rushing, rushing to get old, rushing to stay young, in a hurry to marry, in a hurry to get lonely, in a hurry to become somebody and in this rush to prove what we can do we miss out on the who that is living, being and becoming us. At the drop of…
Let go of what troubles you, it is holding you back. Let go of what comes easy to you, it is holding you back. Comfort and distress seem to be a similar hurdle, just a different approach toward the same result. How often do we stumble in our pride and our shame yet do little…
Continue reading ➞ Walking In The Shadows Of No One (becoming the purpose driven leader inside)
At some point, the whirring would dissipate into the chugging and then to a screeching halt. The sound of rust and steel, perhaps the desperate sigh for relevance at the center of a breakdown. In its shadows, the far off rumbling of an engine steamrolling its way through the flickering lamps of the entire neighborhood,…
Your tree lined streets are beautiful but to the universe what do they mean?To you they speak of accomplishments,success and securities,with your walls of stick and of stonewhere do you draw the lineof neighbors, of strangers, of security alarm saviors?To the universe, the only witness that has seenthe roots of these trees growdeeper than you…
Continue reading ➞ In Search Of Self-Righteous Significance (beyond walls + tree lined streets)
What is the essence of you? Not in what it is that you do but in why do you have to? Why the dichotomy between you and you? Are you not whole, one being or a metamorphosis of disillusion in a chrysalis of confusion, what is it you're protecting? Hidden and buried deep, in matters…
I sit here patiently,meditating on if I've ever settled on anything or if perhaps I've settledfor nothing,in the absence of attachment,can i actually miss everything, I wonder?But what's left of wonderif there is nothing new here,what's an empty promise on another new year,in the absence of commitmentcan I actually accomplish that one thing, I wonder?In…
A native son must at some point despise the land which he inherits if he is ever to understand the full beauty and truth of what it all means without him and more so, what it means within him.AH (Wayward Armie) We all run from home in some capacity, some of us through education, some…
"I am satisfied with what I have"...Of course this was regarding things in a closet or on a shelf but how often do we hear this statement spoken in a prideful moment of an enlightened, near zen type of sudden awakening from our peers, colleagues and acquaintances? Things, right? But what if this is deeper,…
Continue reading ➞ The Difference Between Satisfaction + Desire
Wayward Armie 