when i try to speak my mind i'm confounded by absurdities. i'm confronted by the relativity of all things. the constant state of flux that our minds mold into a concrete vision of 'reality'. true knowledge can not be taught. it comes only from experience. things related to us through words can never be fully comprehended until we grasp them in the ( Read more... )

it's time to break the cycle of apathy and excuses. it's time to take back my life and become the man i want to be. it's time to throw off childish fears and readopt child like perspectives. rejuvenate compassion, reignite the fire of my passions, cast off the demons of sloth and addiction that eat away at the fibre of my being. no more fear of ( Read more... )

just posted some really old stuff from my myspace blogs because i'm planning on deleting my myspace. i don't think anyone reads this and i don't really care whether they do or not. this is my archive of all my silly adolescent thoughts ( Read more... )

there's nothing right with living for a high. nothing right with staying numb to avoid your feelings. nothing right with placing an intoxicating plant above flesh and blood. you gotta have realistic priorities and practice moderation in all things. otherwise you're gonna end up lifeless and empty, pretending to feel by inducing a reaction in your ( Read more... )

cigarettes are the perfect analogy for the consumerism that drives most people's lives. acquiring things gives us satisfaction much like smoking a cigarette does for an addict, but it is a short lived satisfaction that soon must be satisfied again. there is no real point to our materialism, as little point as there is in cigarette addiction. ( Read more... )

- i want to go on an adventure ( Read more... )

not to let disappointment in most people become disillusionment with humanity and life itself ( Read more... )

and my life swept over me in a wave of despair. i hopped up and started singing to myself to lift my spirits. the sun was lower in the sky and i started back towards the school. hurrying for no apparent reason. all the peace of my earlier musings shattered and i cursed my mind for turning so easily from bliss to despair and back again. the despair ( Read more... )

by the words of the buddhaminds before me i wandered out of the drudgery of books and vague ambitions and into the fresh air of this unseasonably warm winter afternoon. as if in a trance i followed the sidewalk to the farthest door and then past it into the grass and the trees beyond. by the time i had stumbled 30 yards into the forest i was in ( Read more... )

do you feel entitled ( Read more... )