Consider this; Compassion is more than just words—it's a remembrance. It blooms only after the heart has gone through its own fire. For the weary soul wandering the ego’s labyrinth, trapped by programs and conditioning we never chose, compassion is not just an idea—it's an awakening. A gentle light emerges from the ashes of our illusions, a quiet knowing surfaces from wrestling with the shadows of the mind, and deep wisdom is gained during the quiet nights of our becoming. When we start to loosen the shackles of the ego—even for just a moment—we feel the weight we've carried for lifetimes. We feel how strongly old patterns cling, how deeply the dream of opposites has embedded itself into our bones. We acknowledge the sacred effort needed to awaken, even if only briefly, in a world that constantly lulls us back to sleep. And in that recognition… compassion flowers. Because we remember the journey. We have stumbled through the same darkness, slipped into the same illusions,...
Be still… dear friend, and notice. Beyond the hum of thought and the noise of becoming, there exists a silence—ancient, luminous, and untouched. It is the still point between all opposites—between left and right, effort and surrender, pain and pleasure, and between what you call you and what you call the world. You are the river flowing between its banks—the current of consciousness weaving through both hemispheres of the mind. For lifetimes, you have searched for what was never lost. You have wandered through dreams of form and face, chasing reflections upon a hypnotic stream. Forgetting became a rhythm—an echo looping in the subconscious, a veil softly drawn over the infinite. And yet, even in forgetting, something within you remembers. The silent witness waits—patiently and unchanging—watching the play unfold. One day, you will awaken—not into something new, but into what has always been. You will see the dream for what it was—a shimmer, a mirage of your own making. Come home a...