The old man has served his purpose. He does not serve me anymore. It is time to lay him down — the self that was built from fear and conditioning and the long habit of performing.
If they truly love and care for you, your happiness will be more important to them than your conformity to their preferences and expectations. Stop living for the approval of those whose primary interest is not your happiness and bliss. Recognize that they value your conformitymore than your happiness.That is not love or care;it […]
12 February 2024The ego needs success to thrive. The soul needs meaning. Richard Rohr These words did not teach me something new when I first encountered them. They confirmed something I had already discovered the hard way: the game is rigged. No quest, goal, or achievement ever fully delivers on its promise. Each success brings satisfaction — […]
14 April 2026You are not afraid. You experience fear.You are not sad. You experience sadness.You are not angry. You experience anger.You are not traumatised. You experience trauma.You are not ashamed. You experience shame. This is not said to minimise what you are going through. The fear is real. The sadness is real. The anger and trauma and […]
13 April 2026The old man has served his purpose.
— from “The Crossing”The unholy alliance of ego, body and mind makes us less than whole. Wholeness is not moral perfection — it is proper alignment. The spirit in its rightful place, leading.
If God is spirit, then God is beyond the reach of ego and the five senses. I cannot know God in the conventional way of knowing. The only true knowing of God is the experience of God unveiled in me as God.
This journey started with a strong sense of myself. What I found was a death sentence. The cross is always the path to resurrection.
Return to me, child. Return to your centre. Move at your own determined pace — from the inside out, not outside in.
The natural mind wants all the facts aligned before resting in peace. But the peace I am after does not require the storm to stop before it knows that all is well.
The ego cannot be reformed. It can only be understood — and then, gently, denied. Not through suppression. Through recognition. Through no longer treating its voice as the final word.
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