This journal is a small culmination of glimpses that drift in and out of my consciousness, ones that leave impressions and marks on the landscape of my awareness.

Featured

Jan 5, 2025

Belonging To This Soul

Jan 5, 2025

Jan 3, 2025

It Demands And Yet Never Breaks A Whisper

Jan 3, 2025

Dec 27, 2024

The Universe

Dec 27, 2024

Dec 9, 2024

To Feel Anything

Dec 9, 2024

Nov 17, 2024

Acadia National Park

Nov 17, 2024

Nov 16, 2024

It's All Here & Now

Nov 16, 2024

Nov 9, 2024

Walking Thoughts

Nov 9, 2024

Oct 24, 2024

2025 Astoria Queens Calendar Is Here!

Oct 24, 2024

Oct 22, 2024

grit + emergence

Oct 22, 2024

Aug 22, 2024

Pull Out the Stopper of Your Mind

Aug 22, 2024

Resources on Being and Creativity:

Inspiring Quotes by Photographers

On Being (radio show, podcast)

Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag (essay)

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Wilke

Daybreak by Nietzsche (book excerpt)

John Cage on Sound, Silence and Meaning (video)

Meister Eckhart on The Indivisible Light Within (book excerpt)

The Shaman and the Artist by Terence McKenna (audio)

I = Awareness by Arthur J. Deikman (article)

An Archive on Consciousness (among other things)

Eternity Passes into Time Through the Portal I Am by Rupert Spira (video clip)

The Complete Mystical Works of Mesiter Eckhart by Maurice O’C Walshe (book)

The Loss of Creature by Walker Percy (essay)

The Essays of Rupert Spira

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.” - Albert Einstein, Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931)

Be Here Now by Ram Dass (book)

“…what is done in love is well done.” - Vincent van Gogh in a letter to Theo

The Art of Listening, Seeing and Learning by J. Krishnamurti (video)

The Moment by Marie Howe (poem)

The Tao that can be told of is not the eternal Tao; The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; The Named is the mother of all things. - Tao-te Ching by Lao Tzu

Miscellaneous Inspiration (quotes)

“At its most basic, the spiritual is the experience of the connectedness that underlies reality. The depth of that experience depends on the capacity of the individual to set aside considerations of self, thereby gaining access to connection.” - Arthur J. Deikman

Bill Moyer interviews Mythologist Joseph Campbell - ‘The Hero’s Adventure’ (transcript)

Culture and the Individual by Aldous Huxley (article)

The Midnight Gospel (Netflix)

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (book)

Alan Watts: Don’t Think Too Much (audio)

The Importance of Getting Out of Your Own Way (JRE Clip with Robert Downey Jr.)

The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley (book)