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No Kings, No Puppets

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion.”— Noam Chomsky They marched under one banner—No Kings—across over two thousand U.S. cities. The chants echoed: Democracy, not dynasty. People over billionaires. And for a moment, it felt like something real. Unity. Purpose. A mass of people moving as one.That matters. But here’s the…

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🟥 They Sent the Military In Again

Disaster Capitalism in Los Angeles. The playbook hasn’t changed. The targets just keep getting poorer. This time, it’s Los Angeles. June 2025. Trump bypassed the state and federalized the National Guard, sending them into LA under the guise of “public safety.” The mission? Remove unhoused people from public land. Sweep the evidence of systemic failure under armed boots and branding…

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The Beginner’s Mind Is the Bravest Mind

I thought I had to wait until I was ready. But the truth is, readiness comes after the return — not before. The act of beginning again is itself the practice — not a flaw in the process, but the process. We tend to think of starting over as something reserved for mistakes or failures, as if it’s a sign we’ve strayed off course. But what if beginning again is actually the most honest course we…

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Letting Go of Old Stories for New Beginnings

It can be offputting to hear the concept that the past is nothing more than thoughts in our heads. We know it happened. Often, we have physical proof that it happened. But when it’s over, where does the past exist in the present moment? For many of us (myself included) our past exists in the present through the stories we tell ourselves in our heads. We turn a singular experience into a defining…

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Seek, Find, Embrace: The Power of Openness

An open mind can seem like a vague term. Yet closed-minded is very succinct and easy to understand. It can be confusing to learn that openness to the world is the key to finding what we seek in life. But it is straightforward that being closed-minded towards the world is to live a limited, suffocated life. “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” — Buddha I find myself in a battle…

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Stillness in Motion: Embracing the Paradox of Existence

While our experiences are constantly in flux, a core sense of self exists, a presence that remains constant. Our external experience of life and the world is like a river, fire, or busy urban intersection. Our internal presence, awareness, consciousness, soul, or being; are the ground beneath those things. The river flows fast and slow, the fire rages and flickers and the intersection goes from…

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Discovering Our Potential by Cultivating Personal Power

Photo by Karsten Würth on Unsplash “Your life is a message to yourself. What is it saying?” — Ram Dass Personal power can come across as a nausea-inducing cliche. The collateral damage of the toxic positivity movement of retro self-help gurus and modern influencers. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. A concept as important and helpful as personal power, like most good things, seems…

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Breaking Free of Judgement & Going Beyond Blame

Photo by Tom Chrostek on Unsplash “To judge another is to judge oneself.” — Wayne Dyer One of the things we all have in common is that we are constantly judging. We judge ourselves. We judge other people. We judge our environment. We judge our past. We judge our potential future. We judge our actions. We judge our bodies. We judge our minds. We judge our failures. We judge our successes. We…

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Beyond the Fall: Finding Strength in Setbacks

“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” — Epictetus Failure is a necessary part of life.Setbacks are an inevitability. We wouldn’t know what success or breakthroughs were without failure and setbacks. There is no getting around the yin-yang, no matter how much we wish we could sometimes. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we…

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Beyond the Fall: Finding Strength in Setbacks

“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” — Epictetus Failure is a necessary part of life.Setbacks are an inevitability. We wouldn’t know what success or breakthroughs were without failure and setbacks. There is no getting around the yin-yang, no matter how much we wish we could sometimes. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we…

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Taming the Thought Beast

Hearing that we don’t think, rather that thinking happens to us, sounds weird at first. After all, if I’m not in control of my thoughts, then who is? Do you breathe? Or does breathing happen to you? What happens if you try to stop breathing? Do you dream? Or does dreaming happen to you? What happens if you try to stop dreaming? Do you blink? Or does blinking happen to you? What happens if…

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Reach Out, Rise Up: The Power of Asking for Help

It can be so hard to ask for help. In real life, not in terms of asking people to like, subscribe, and turn on notifications.   To need help is like the Big Bad Wolf blowing down a house made of straw. Knowing that one needs help is like blowing down a house made of wood. To ask for help, to be vulnerable, and to reveal our internal shortcomings to the external world; can be like trying to blow…

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Patience ☯ Action: A Dance, not a Duel

When should I be patient and when should I take action? This can be a tough question for anyone at any level in life. I know it has been for me, at every stage of my life up to this point. I remember thinking that epiphanies brought about by consuming and then applying knowledge would be a permanent solution to this puzzle. I suppose I’m old enough to possess the wisdom through experience to…

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The Seriousness Trap

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own.” – Alan Watts It is a lovely experience whenever I meet someone who hasn’t been conditioned to take everything and everyone so seriously. Do you know the type of person I’m talking about? Do you currently know people like…

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Awareness is the Way Out of the Prison of Egocentric Judgment

We think without realizing we’re thinking and we judge without realizing we’re judging. It’s hardwired into us, as a survival mechanism. Like the majority of survival mechanisms that are hardwired into us thanks to evolution, our constant judging of the people, places, things, and situations around us serves as a detriment more than a benefit in the modern world. For years, I’ve immersed myself…

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Finding Freedom Over Fright in Knowing Everything is Temporary

The good news is; that nothing lasts. The bad news is; that nothing lasts.  Freeing if one perceives things going neutral or worse in their life situation. Frightening for those doing well or better and want to go on winning living forever. Stoic philosophy came into my life at the right time. After my mother passed away, along with therapy and psychedelics, stoicism helped me process my grief…

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Unfollow Shame & Cultivate Growth Through Mindful Media Consumption

“There is beauty and humility in imperfection.” – Guillermo del Toro We are our own worst critic. We identify with our thoughts by default. We think we are our minds by default. So the idealized image of ourselves that we have in our heads is the standard we hold ourselves to. Regardless of how unrealistic that image is. Then life layers wouldas, couldas, and shouldas on top of that idealized…