by Monk Anchorwind | 4 May, 2022 | Introspective, Observational |
I’ve been meditating intently on purpose. I think purpose and home share the same sense of safety and comfort. They are both where you return to when you become lost and need to recenter yourself. I’ve written a few times about being homeless, and the news...
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 | 15 Apr, 2022 | Uplifting |
This was for an Art Therapy Group
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...
