Questioning Your Answers

Do you believe it because you were told to believe it, or else? Or do you believe it because you know it to be true? Do you believe it because someone else said they have seen it, or do you believe it through your own experience of such things? Do you believe it out of …

Seeker of Silences

“A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?” ~Kahlil Gibran: The Prophet

Stillness asks Me

Stillness asks me, as a reach for my phone, the remote, a book, for anything to fill the stillness. “When will you listen?” Stillness reminds me, that now is the perfect time. In this moment, when nothing is there to distract. Unless I allow it. And stillness whispers, “ will you listen?”

Todays and Years Longings

More than anything, I just long for time alone. Stillness, silence, solitude. And for several years now, this is the very thing that constantly eludes me. I cry for her. I rage for her. I thirst, I starve, malnourished. Needed to be fed, by nothing. Empty bliss. No distractions or disruptions. No voices, nor noises. …

Don’t Throw Your Pearls Before Swine. (Needs revision)

This could have many connotations. And like the many beautiful things said in Scriptures, this one does too. For me lately, it resonates with trying to be understood. It does not imply my pearls are any greater or of more value than the next mans; or that the ones I try to get to understand …

This Thought

When we finally believe something. As true. We will no longer need to defend it. Defense, like a self preservation agent, is primal. Fear based. Defending is like implying we must protect it. But what is known to be true; need not be lost. Defended. Or protected. It sits still. It needs not object. It …