Insights

September 6, 2010

I would rather live a life of sorrow and insecurity than live in a world created by the illusions of thought that give a false sense of security and togetherness.

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I don’t know much and what I do know isn’t worth much. But what I feel at any given moment tells me what I am doing right now is my freedom or my bondage.

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We were built to love and be loved.
We are incapable of processing love or being processed by it.
It is only by us loving that love is restored in us and we are healed from all the incapable people like us that fall short of love’s high call.

Coach bri


In the Small Things We Choose Our Sorrow

May 13, 2009

It is in the small things we choose our sorrow. In places where the relationship gets strained, we ask too much of a friend or we ask too little of ourselves. In all situations relationship is denied when we are not open with the people we care about the most. Or we isolate ourselves when people are not able to give to us because they are toiling with there own woes. The mark of love leaves a deep bite when it comes crashing into our darkness and leaves us naked without excuses or remedies for things others thought we couldn’t do or weren’t capable of. When we are touched by something real and innocent, we run to our deepest vices and plant ourselves fully in their chains, as if to say my change is not welcome if pleasure is withheld from me.

The music of anything is found in the spaces between the notes. In that nothingness we began and we will again drift into it. The time of birth and the time of death come when they come. Behind all things there is simplicity – live fully, die, empty, embrace the things that bring challenge to your day. Step away from things that give the illusion of being powerful. Cancer is powerful but it too dies. Hunger is powerful and it too dies. Yet the promise of pleasure is never as good or powerful as the promise it made. Behind it all is how you make your life, not for yourself, but so that others can find their riches in your heart. Truth is the only true power in this world and we run from her like vampires in a sunrise. We run from light because in its presence change just happens, and the illusion of control we thought we had is no longer.

Coachbri


What Does it Mean to be Human?

May 12, 2008

What does it mean to be human? Is it the chaos we create when we impose our beliefs on others by wronging them for their’s? Often what people think takes on a moral purpose and in conversation with them, what is destroyed is the relationship.

She was nice to look at – friendly and yet strong. She was not a pushover and was not going to be mistreated by anyone. Whenever you entered a conversation with her, she was very skillful and bright. Within a few moments she often unknowingly challenged what you said. The challenge was not a conversation based on two people talking things over together but more of a conversation that was her imposing her more profound view of the situation. She always had moral purpose to her behavior and she knew the right solution, question, and answer. Often in the conversations one felt as if they were being setup. Within a few moments interest would be shown by her telling you, from a more moral perspective, how and what to think. This would of course be done with the best of intentions and perhaps even unnoticed. When around her one had to very careful and conscious of what one said. In this atmosphere all connection and creativity were was stifled. In that was also a profound sorrow.

Coachbri