He dreamed of that country with which he had been long acquainted, now exiled . . . In the dream, the dead of that place fearsomely...

Total solitude casts a gigantic shadow against the wall of inner self - It is here the most inward of all observers appears to...

:: organic consciousness (i.e. astute squirrel)— an illuminated, self-startled, shattered mirror attempting to nudge its inexplicable...

Increasingly aware that had I somehow, inexplicably, come-to-persist in more than one given time . . . I experienced all the constituents...

The relationship with our ‘personal’ past is fraught with complexity. Vast and shifting responses to one’s past are a natural given- and...

We spend most of our conscious lives running simulations of others’ presumed thought streams. We do so in a lifelong, compulsive effort...

That spirit should so willfully adhere to flesh is the cause of every tear that is shed, every wall erected, and every outpost racked...

To have lived long enough to experience that one can sustain the turning of one’s eyes to sights that compel one to ache for whole, lost...

What difference does it make, if you are going to die? Whose difference? : is ours to map this moment at which one is freed from begging...

To withdraw ourselves from the unnatural miracles humanity has created . . . To withdraw ourselves from the unnatural miracles humanity...

Photo Credit: Unsplash Dwell deeply on each and every thought and perception- for in the vast accumulations of the hour in which you...

Photo Credit: Unsplash The ‘base organicity’ of who I have traveled far ‘to be’ is composed of all places I ‘have been’ - the vast corn...

:: M E D I T A T I O N ~ Photograph Copyright 2016-2023 by Julia Marie Stolvoort M E D I T A T I O N ? ~ no, not until a single,...

All while looking outward toward the improbable infinite . . . When first coming to ‘belief’, one cannot conceive that one shall ever...

On the path of spirit: We begin early in life by reading the stories of those we adopt as ones we come to intuit to be fellow travelers :...

"It is in fact in moments of moral and spiritual struggle depending upon spiritual sanctions…that men and women come nearest to being...

It is not simply where the eye falls, but how one's eyesight falls. Is one's vision "falling" open, or "falling" closed. Observe the...