by Monk Anchorwind | 5 Jun, 2022 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, I am a quiet person with a noisy mind. Wise people worldwide have accurately reminded us we have two ears and one mouth for a reason. I am most comfortable with a bit of nature’s noise, or music, as it gives me something on which to channel my...
by Monk Anchorwind | 27 May, 2022 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, What is Sadness? Sadness is the pain of losing an attachment to the world. Alternately, sadness is us relating to someone else losing theirs. Imagine a mother handing a child a balloon and seeing the pure excitement on the little one’s face when they...
by Monk Anchorwind | 17 May, 2022 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, What is freedom? At its core, freedom is the ability to make decisions for oneself. I would wager if we sampled a healthy chunk of the American populace, ‘freedom’ would make up a part of the national identity; it is what we advertise on the...
by Monk Anchorwind | 29 Apr, 2022 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, What is purpose? Purpose is the principle guiding how we choose to spend our time if all environmental factors are equal. It answers the question ‘what do we want to do/be when we grow up?’ Realistically, we don’t always get to choose how...
by Monk Anchorwind | 8 Apr, 2022 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, When we try to look at a map of the river of life, we do our best with the information we have available. While others deny reality, substituting their own to the detriment of the rest of us, doing so is another way of planting a flag in the timeline and...
by Monk Anchorwind | 29 Mar, 2022 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, Rest is doing any activity, including none, for which we feel better having done. How often do we engage in things which make us feel worse? Trying to understand why we do this is unanswerable; the sheer number of reasons is beyond our ability to count and...
by Monk Anchorwind | 21 Mar, 2022 | Dear Diary |
I’ve been thinking a lot about ‘peace.’ It is easy to think of peace as the absence of stress, but when is there truly no stress? We can divert our attention away from something, but it still exists outside our focus. Generally speaking, tensions do...
by Monk Anchorwind | 11 Mar, 2022 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, I just wrote (In my Dear Diary, What is Rest piece), ‘I think of rest as being in a state of peace.’ However, I felt I was vastly understating my feelings. I couldn’t find the words to elaborate upon rest and peace. What is peace? Peace...
by Monk Anchorwind | 10 Mar, 2022 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, What does it mean to rest? What is rest? Is rest something we do actively? As I get deeper into my meditations about healing, I am learning I am abysmal at resting. When my pain level rises beyond usual daily limitations, I try to figure out how to relax...
by Monk Anchorwind | 28 Feb, 2022 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, Love is a Skill What is love? Baby, don’t hurt me. Ok, let’s try again. What is love? Love is a decision. Decisions are a representation of our daily behavior. Decisions lead to accomplishments, but we develop skills to reach a certain level or...
