Posted in The Knife Cutting Edge on Feb 26th, 2009
How many of you find yourself worrying about things that are beyond your control? I know I am guilty of this all the time, even though I realize the futility of the effort.
What about feelings like jealousy, angst, or even malice? Have you ever found yourself caught up in a torrent of emotion that seems [...]
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Would You Take the Red Pill?
You claim freedom and free will, but how far are you willing to go to back that up? Given the choice, would you take the red pill and risk everything to gain it all, or would you be afraid to leave your “quasi” life behind and cower behind the blue [...]
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Do you live with a panic deep inside of you? You might not even know it is there, but you can probably feel it. It drives you to continually find new ways to improve yourself and to better your life. It drives you to eat more, drink more, or spend more money. You keep trying [...]
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What I Learned from Fasting
We live in a world that makes every possible attempt to control us. There are pysical, social, psychological, and even spiritual mechanisms in place to force our actions down a certain path. Those that are able to break free from these mechanisms of control are those you don’t see on the [...]
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Posted in The Knife Cutting Edge on Oct 10th, 2008
Reclaim Your Mind
We live in a world where we are required to perform hundreds of tasks by hundreds of people on a routine basis. We have work responsibilities, family responsibilities, social responsibilities, and personal responsibilities. We have overburdened ourselves so much that it is no surprise we have turned to multitasking as a way out [...]
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Living Your Dreams
In the last two parts of the series, I talked about eyeing the world with innocence, and keeping hope alive. In the final installment of this series, I’d like to talk about keeping your dreams alive. Now, nowhere in the manual of life does it have to say that you have to reach [...]
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Posted in The Knife Cutting Edge on Mar 31st, 2008
There is no way to deny it, we have become addicted to the blurry swirling lights of illusion that feed our ego with a never ending stream of sensory delight. We feel the need to diversify our minds to the point of ineffectiveness, darting from one task to the next instantly and without diversion. We [...]
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