All powerful claims to your personhood begin by laying claim to something buried deep inside. All of the best sales pitches, from religion to the mar...
What is worthwhile. What is worth doing. What gives a life meaning. If the answer was singular, it would have been sold to you by now with a lifetime...
Even the idea of an internal guide can be confusing. Incredibly natural once you realise there is no other guide, very confusing when all you’ve relie...
Systems aren’t objective entities that live outside of nature. They are from it and of it. They are manifestations of nature. The incentives they run...
From an early age, your environment shapes you. Mould you into something, someone. From parents to school, to the workplace. The insistence is that so...
Do you need to take yourself away to escape the forces that seek to mould you. Or can you retreat into yourself. The interior space is so vast, and s...
To not listen to the internal voice is to empower a wilful deafness. A deliberate shunning of something that is at essence what makes you, you. Shunni...
Rebellion is not resistance. It’s not a position that exists solely in opposite to someone, something or an idea. It’s far beyond that. If it existe...
Control. Oppression. Rules. Constraint. None of these things feel good. They take away, they add on someone else's agenda. They don't feel good. You...
The greatest risk of absorbing the values and beliefs of a system outside of yourself, is it leads you to judge yourself. Often harshly. Inappropriate...
Systems and the structures they inhabit are designed to make you powerless. Mostly not through malign intent, but rather through self-serving structur...
Buried deep in our judgement of others are unwritten rules of how to be. How to behave. And how to think. Much more oppressive than the boundaries and...
So much of self-help and wisdom in contemporary society is offered as a salvation.