Perhaps the most important sign in the beginning of your awakening to Understanding is the wish to die. ~lt

Some days you write a lot. And other days, not so much. It’s not necessarily the quantity of the writing that matters. I’d rather read one piece that really stuck with me than fifteen soulless entries. I guess that’s why I’ve been drawn to works of old Zen practitioners. So much meaning and emotion is […]

I know how you feel, love. These nights are long and they’re only getting longer, right? You lay awake at night wondering if that day will ever come. I pray that you find solace in the stars, for I am just as you. Counting the nights and the stars until we meet. Hang in there, […]

A Master is not one with words. He merely acts. There is no show, no pomp or circumstance. His followers are not slaves to him, no, for they are trusted. Trusted to do for themselves what they are trusted to do. When their task is done they exclaim “We have done this ourselves!”, for this […]

That is the thing with darkness. He who does not comprehend it will spend his life fearing the night. But he who stands to understand it becomes seized. It washes over him; a blackened wave of shimmering stars and in the end, he is blessed with silence and peace. ~lt

The entire egoic condition exists on the idea that there is something wrong with you. That you must do something in order to wake up. But this is not the case. Simply wake up. You do not need to do anything else. There is nothing inherently wrong with you. Just wake up. ~lt

I could never really understand how we love ourselves more than the people around us but we care more about their opinion of us than our own. ~lt