Greetings and welcome! I am currently 23 days into a meditation course, specifically a mindfulness meditation course. I am going to outline what this means as well as describing my experience so far. The course is through the ‘Waking Up’ app by Sam Harris the author, philosopher, neuroscientist, and podcast host. The practice involves 10-15 […]
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Polarity – A Short Story by M L Wood
The wind blew softly against Nick’s face as he blinked himself into awareness. He rolled out his fingers and felt the dewy grass warm against his hands, realizing he was laying down. Water flowed by him and the sound felt comforting, like a song he was meant to hear. He began to stand up slowly […]
Embracing Love In A Time Of Fear
As a civilization I have been feeling as if we are at the precipice for sometime and the beginning of a new dawn is upon us. I could never quite put my finger on these feelings. A shift in global consciousness perhaps? Maybe we all shifted into a parallel universe in 2012 when the Mayans […]
Running Progress 2020 My Fitness Journey Day 44.
Today marks day 44 of my 90 day fitness journey! Almost half way, wowy. Just a quick little update, today i ran a 5km, for the second time in less than a week and i shaved more than 3 minutes off of my time! Stoked haha Behold. The next part of my 90 day challenge […]
Voltaire and Meditation – Can 20 Minutes a Day Better Your Life?
Voltaire once said “Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.” The French historian and philosopher Voltaire proclaimed meditation to be some mystical tool for expanding your consciousness and being one with the universe. Or so it would seem after reading the […]
Dont Be Afraid of Life
If you’re afraid to take risks, to get out of your comfort zone. You’re not just afraid of death, you’re afraid of life.
What Would My Last Words Be?
If i was on my death bed and someone asked me to sum up life, it would be something like this. Life is hard, life is beautiful and it is perfect in all its forms. Its going to be tough, and its better that way. You will learn from the pain, comfort is a disease. […]
Share Your Medicine – By M L Wood
“I believe most people have their own inner song to sing to the world, a form of medicine. Yet most go to their graves with that song still within them. To me, that’s tragic.” – M L Wood
Bearing My Soul – by M L Wood
“The only real thing I am good at, is bearing my soul.” – M L Wood
Eastern Philosophies and The Modern Man. Finding Meaning In The Western World.
“Western philosophy is about striving for personal perfection in an imperfect world. Eastern philosophy is about accepting personal (illusory) imperfection in a perfect world.” By Naval Ravikant The above thoughts and quote by Naval (who is a billionaire tech entrepreneur, by the way, look him up – incredible man), couldn’t be truer in my opinion. […]
