The Step the Stoics Never Took
The Stoics taught us how to endure. But what if they didn’t go far enough? This reflection explores the missing step between philosophy and spirituality in the Western tradition—and why that still matters today.
Wisdom is how you live.
The Stoics taught us how to endure. But what if they didn’t go far enough? This reflection explores the missing step between philosophy and spirituality in the Western tradition—and why that still matters today.
What if the road not taken isn’t a bold leap outward — but a quiet turn inward? This is a reflection for anyone at the edge of familiar patterns, finally ready to choose presence over performance, and wholeness over the quick way forward.
What if purpose isn’t about power — but presence?
This reflection travels from Loki’s final act to ancient myths and a mischievous Indian poet, exploring how sacred disruption, steady care, and quiet conviction can shape the soul of a lifetime.
Most of us live like time is out to get us — rushing, resisting, racing the clock. But during a painful tattoo session, I discovered a radical shift: time can dissolve when we meet it through breath. This is how I stopped counting minutes and started inhabiting them.
In today’s workplace, professionalism is often mistaken for grace—and leadership for visibility. This piece explores how our growing appetite for applause is confusing duty with virtue, and what that means for the next generation of leaders.
I didn’t set out to become more empathetic—I just couldn’t live detached anymore. What once protected me became the path back to presence. This reflection traces how emotional numbness, inherited as survival, eventually gave rise to deep recognition, connection, and healing.
They were raised on performance, productivity, and polish.
Now they’re waking up.
Not to rebel—but to remember what it means to be human.
This is the story of the 19%, their legacy, and the quiet migration of meaning.
A personal invitation to remember what’s true before it’s translated.
A tender meditation on the quiet exhaustion of hiding your truth, and the courage it takes to return to your full, unmasked self. For those who are not broken—just early.
“Good” once meant whole. Now it’s a step to surpass. This essay explores how comparison shaped by language and colonization distorted our understanding of sufficiency—and how to reclaim goodness as a sacred way of being.