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The Crisis And The Beauty
I took a few decades to learn that life is a flow of creation, destruction, and re-creation. I took a bit longer to learn that happiness, joy, and fulfillment are not goals to be achieved. They are the result of being fully engaged in the blood, sweat, tears, fears, love, and laughter of real life….
— Bud Harris, PhD
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Everyone must destroy their life. According to the way they do it, they’re either triumphants or failures.”
~ Emil Cioran
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If you are lucky, at some point in your life you will come to a complete dead end….
Then if you are ready, you can start to discover inside yourself what you always longed for but were never able to find.
— Peter Kingsley
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We all have generational shadows. These shadows are handed down like waves of deep conscious pain traveling through the human condition like a virus.
When I find myself experiencing the crashing wave of generational shadow, I find strength in knowing I am doing the work for all of my ancestors, all of my descendants, along with myself. And yes, the rest of the world as well. We are all just walking each other home.