If the purpose is individuation, then how can teachings exist that can take you—an individual—there? What guidelines can exist to show someone what wholeness looks like for them? How can anything take you to be you?
If there are no two identical drops of water, no two identical sunsets, why should there be two identical human beings?
The separation of domains — psychology over here, spirituality over there, personal experience somewhere else — is itself a kind of fragmentation that the modern world imposed. Labeling and compartmentalizing until the whole picture gets lost.
”And if the experiment fails,
It’s like being the first person on the moon.
Hopefully, we’ll learn something from it.
That’s how science works, doesn’t it?”
We’re still in an age where people want to build roots, buy roots, but not plant roots inside. This doesn’t even sound rational to most, who think their roots are in the past.
Stop to wonder…
Not analyze, not conclude, not calculate, not plan, not defend, not prepare. But actually wonder.
“Less is more. Clear the blog. Let it breathe.”
So I did.
“Don’t make people lazy.”
So I won’t.
Then I made coffee and sat at my desk to watch the sun rise.
People think the antidote to ego is humility, discipline,
meditation, compassion, spiritual practice, asceticism…
All of that is surface-level management.
The real antidote to ego is wonder.
The more meaningless one’s life is,
the more meaning one gives to meaningless things.
When the inner field goes quiet, the psyche fills the silence with noise.
Not by choice — by structural necessity.
You’re born, you live, you die.
So what?
Millions of people, like you and me, have come and gone.