Spirituality for Living

Who can we trust? Your self when you know yourself. The problem is mostly people don’t know themselves. They know an idea of self. A role among other things and a prejudice, a judgement.
We only have ideas of others, so is there no trust in others? For the most part. “Trust no one” is commonly [...]

Trust isn’t foolishness. Trust isn’t being a martyr or a sucker. Those come about when you don’t trust. When you perceive and then rationalize; “Well, maybe I’m wrong“, “Well, maybe they have changed“. Oh, the list of rationalizations is endless. If you trust you give place to the truth. You allow it to show itself [...]

What we realize when we really tackle this subject of the brain, of thinking, is that we weren’t really paying attention. So we get panicky, we say “Well if my thoughts can be wrong, then how can I know?”. Because to trust we need to know, and we aren’t wrong. We do need to know. [...]

It’s quite popular to doubt, to distrust people. Supposedly you are being shrewd and intelligent if you trust no one. Anyone know any paranoiacs who are genuinely wise? Fearful geniuses? Anyone changing the world by running away from it or doubting themselves? And yet, it’s cool to subscribe to trust no one right now. Even [...]

Is there ever a time not to trust? When you have to ask if you should trust, then distrust the distrust.
In my area there is terrible violence with gangs. I don’t want to be paranoid. Trust they will act on what they say.  Distrust doesn’t serve. Really distrust is the force that keeps us stuck [...]

Looking back for my future. Looking forward it’s past. The only time I can love you is in the now. Not a race. Hey, wrote a poem.   Yes, that’s the truth.  If right now I just cannot accept my now, I can take radical action. Nothing is truly circumstantial, but things are balanced. You choose radical change [...]