“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.” ~Dostoevsky On a long enough timeline everything is stardust. Every bone in your body. Every friend on your friend’s list. Every book on your bookshelf. Every philosophy ever known. Every philosophy not even known. All of it, will someday be stardust. What seems important now will be inconsequential tomorrow, and probably always was. So, it stands to reason that any perennial philosophy would humble
“We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.” ~Ludwig Wittgenstein What does it mean to wake up just enough to know that we are dreaming? It means that the “Truth” is out there, but it is not necessarily ours to grasp. It means we are “asleep” to how the universe really works. We are “asleep” to knowing why we’re here or what it all means or how we can even begin to figure it out. Knowing that we’re dreaming is reali
“The road to heaven feels like hell. The road to hell feels like heaven.” ~Unknown The labyrinth is a metaphor for navigating change. It stands as a monolithic structure that represents both the unknown and the subtle art of transforming the unknown into wisdom. More importantly, it is a mythopoetic symbol for finding oneself. The labyrinth is the place you go to shed your cultural conditioning. It’s where you stretch your comfort zone into discomfort. In fact, anything o