On Reasons and Passion

Our reason and our passion are what keep us alive. And since they fall hand in hand, it is easy to forget one or the other. What we all do in life, from a giver to a receiver, must be with full awareness of the reason of doing it and the passion behind it. But as they lay hand in hand, they also contradict. For sometimes, the reason of it overpowers the passion we feel about it, and visa versa. Sometimes, our decisions become battle fields with the opponents of passion and reason where motive and judgment wages war against cravings and hunger. In order to make decisions flow with melody, the two elements must put down their weapons and mend with peace. But even without knowledge we use the two behind each thing we do, so dig inside yourself to find a remedy to create tranquility. If you cannot grab both, but only one, the decisions made will not be true to yourself for reason, by itself, becomes artificial desires, and passion, ruling alone, is an uncontrolled fire, and your soul is its oil. But if you are lucky and enlightened, you can grab both reasons and passion and nurse them together to create the out most result. Do not weigh reason over passion or passion over reason, for that will create the armed battle once again. Treat them as equals as they treat you the same. Live for passion and the reasons that surround it.






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On Pain

You must know and  love pain to teach your self to love the feeling of when it disperses. Your pain is the breaking of your own happiness and your well being. As the sun must go down and the light must die, the delight of no pain must as well. But we would not know what light is unless we experience darkness, and we would not know day if we did not know night. After you have reached your deepest internal pain, weather a broken heart or a broken bone, the only way is up. If you know this, that pain causes wellness and wellness causes pain, than your pain will not seem less desirable than your joy. This knowledge of self results in total serenity. The contrast in your darkest moments and your lightest ones is what keeps you among the normal, but to know that you can achieve both, is what keeps you yourself. Pain is self-chosen. Most of the time, the pain is not as severe as you may believe, so listen to those who can heal, and those who can remedy, for you are one yourself. Next time you feel pain, remember this: you can reach the highest of yourself, you can overcome the bitterness of your internal state, and you can choose to control the remedy of the heal and the remedy of yourself. And next time you feel no pain, remember to cherish it, for you never know when the sensation of freedom can relapse to the opposite.



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Active Yoga

Thursdays yoga experience was surprisingly enjoyable. I was able to focus on myself instead of the people in the room, and for the first time in the practice, I was able to stay in difficult poses while still absorbed in my own thoughts. I felt much stronger this time, and not just in my body, but in the control I had over my own thoughts. When my mind would drift to the person next to me, I was able to quickly return to myself, and when my mind would shift to how much it bothered me to stay in down dog for X amount of seconds, I was able to quickly remember why I was doing it. The first few times we did active yoga, my focus was on the clock and the faces that surrounded me, but this time, it was about me, my thoughts, and my body. Afterwards, I felt like a new person. I felt like I was replenished and motivated to to whatever I needed to do. And although I did sweat a little bit, I almost felted cleaner then I did when we began.



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On Joy and Sorrow

In order to be joyous, you must experience sorrow, for without it, there is nothing in comparison. The deeper the cut, the greater the heal, the longer the trip, the greater the time and the deeper the sorrow, the greater the joy. They are the co existence of the each other. One can not happen without the other, and one may not spout without the pester of the other. It takes some dust to have it polished, so when you are sorrow, take a step back and absorb yourself in the joy you have once encountered in order to know your state and remember the polish that is embedded in side you, then heal. When you are joyous, take that same step back, maybe even further, and express the gratitude you have to know what sorrow is, so you can be the opposite. It takes some good to make it hurt, and some bad for satisfaction, so treat them the same, for they explode from the other, and heal one another. Some will say that Joy is better, yet others would say that Sorrow is better, for one may never understand joy, until they overcome sorrow. Take the time to worship both, but never be too caught up in the spell of existence....well because life is wonderful, so let it last.

Bucket List

Write a novel
Travel the world with no agenda
Take a road trip across the country
Paint a mural
Fall in love
Skydive
Make a difference, big or small.
Get a tattoo
Learn to Surf
Sing to a crowd
Grow a garden

On Giving

The only way to give is to give yourself in the most selfless manner ever achievable. To give is to reflect in yourself the meaning of the gift and the meaning of the purpose. One who gives may never get, and one who gets may never give, but that is not alway true. One who gives may get and one who gets may give. This can be interoperated in any single way possible and it is nearly impossible to even write or comprehend, but I will try to explain the art of giving. I believe a gift is not the gift its self, but the intention behind it. The most spectacular gifts are those of anonymous givers, those who feel no need for recognition of their deed. They are the givers we cherish. To give exposure of their identity is a gift to their self within itself, but that becomes a selfish act, opposed of a selfless one. A gift is not a want, but a need. The greatest gifts are the gifts of the needed, not of the desired. It may seem the opposite, but which do you need more, the things you need, or the ones you want? Giving must be selfless with full intention of bettering another soul. If it is anything besides this, one would do better not giving at all.

On Children

Children are the essence of existence and the electricity in our bones that charge the spirits within. They breath their own breath and drum to their own beat. Children come from us, however, do not become us. We become ourselves through growing out of the children we once were. Our mother and fathers are not our mothers and fathers and we are not their children. For those are just labels. Those people, they are the embedded psyche that we have secure in our skin, they are the soul and the balance that is needed in each spirit and the constant reminder of nature and nurture. If they do not exist on this earth any more, it does not mean that the implanted essence is not still apparent, because it is forever evident in the embodiment of their children, for they are children too. Each is a child, and each is a being, perhaps never a mother or father, but always a child. Children are always there, no matter the age of the bone. So...let your child shine, whatever that may mean to you or the child in you.