The Ardent Axiom
Illuminating the Facts About Behavioral Health and Rising Above the Stigma
Category: Human Condition
Essays about the human endurement.
The Man In The Mirror
July 17, 2011 “The man who never learns to face himself, will never know what it means to be free.” The Man In The Mirror I ask myself why it bothers me so much that there are groups of people who take a strong… Continue Reading “The Man In The Mirror”
Keep You: Part Two
March 19, 2011 You are so shy and so quiet, never wanting to be noticed. Painfully introverted, you carry out entire conversations in your head, conversations you will probably never honestly have. Your lips moving, but the sounds never come out. I watch and… Continue Reading “Keep You: Part Two”
A River of Undying Flames
December 31, 2010 A River of Undying Flames It is with personal feeling that I write this. Without it, none of these words would ever mean as much as they do. I once wrote that as a writer it is not my purpose to change… Continue Reading “A River of Undying Flames”
Autumn Calls You Home
September 30, 2010 Autumn Calls You Home Summer has ended. Autumn has arrived. The change in the weather can’t be ignored. The wind blows colder and the mornings feel damp and brisk. The leaves are already beginning to change, the grass is starting to… Continue Reading “Autumn Calls You Home”
These Walls, That Shadow, Those Memories and This Soul
September 10, 2010 These Walls, that Shadow, those Memories, and this Soul How do you heal a man who’s pain is inside his head, a pain that transcends flesh and bone? Behind these walls of distrust and shame, hidden so far deep inside of… Continue Reading “These Walls, That Shadow, Those Memories and This Soul”
Meditation
An Outline of a Course in the Art of Meditation: The Awareness of Thought An Introduction I once told myself how rediculous meditation must be. I thought that to be void of thought was perhaps the most terrible state in which to exist. To… Continue Reading “Meditation”
A Portal to My Mind
October 12, 2009 A Portal To My Mind I ask, “What is the meaning of life?” We live among so much meaninglessness, material things of a false value. Possessions of emptiness. We are but beings wandering paved roads, trying to justify ourselves and our… Continue Reading “A Portal to My Mind”
At Peace With Goodbye
June 2007 Remembering you is never enough to smother the flame above my heart, memories of what has been will never be suffice to subside my desire to touch you one last time. Photographs of you do your presence no justice, this paper form… Continue Reading “At Peace With Goodbye”
The Starry Night
November 23, 2009 The Starry Night Surely it can be said that to study the stars is to study the very cells of a god. The more I have to come to lose myself in the deeper contemplation of the microcosm and the macrocosm,… Continue Reading “The Starry Night”
My Heart in the Sun
August 2008 My Heart in the Sun So long ago a journey to forget all the things that I had remembered, began with the kiss of poison in a cup. Embarked upon in the name of hope and peace, like banners in the sky,… Continue Reading “My Heart in the Sun”
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