Part 9: Motivation Salvation

List of all Articles & Essays

• Vaccination?
• Should You Go Back to School?
• The Privilege and Risks of Pretentious and Delusional Self-Importance in American Youth
• Prajñāpāramitā Part III: The Sacred Lotus of the Dharma
• How to Practice Empathy and Prevent Emotional Impotence
• Down the Rabbit Hole and Through the Looking Glass
• The Power of Hope on the Journey of Recovery
• The Right Mindset for a More Meaningful Life
• Companionship: Love Not Lust
• Recovery: Hope is the Spark
• To Mask or Not to Mask
• Freckles: Chapter Nineteen
• When Life Hurts the Most
• Start a Conversation that Matters
• The Tragedy of Travis Maldonado
• The Power and Truth of Self-Awareness
• A Journey Called Hope
• The Scars of Loss
• Unsolicited Stranger
• The Dying Light of Unrequited Love
• Freckles: Chapter Eighteen
• Liberation and a Return to the Sacred
• The Perfect Life
• Love Me Not
• Chasing the Westward Sun
• Life After
• The Past That’s Not Forgotten
• In the Twilight of Memory
• Out of the Darkness: My Experience with a Mental Health Condition
• U.S. Behavioral Health and the Workplace
• Prajñāpāramitā Part II: The Heart of Insight
• Moments in Time
• To Be Acknowledged As Existing
• Choose To Live
• The Power of Belief
• Lords of the Wild
• The Inexplicable
• Genealogy: How To Research Your Family Ancestry
• Ben Tre: Keep the Loneliness Warm
• Genetics: The Basics of How You’ve Come To Be
• What the Story of Hiro-Kala Teaches Us
• When A Parent Dies
• Prajñāpāramitā Part I: The Diamond that Cuts Through Illusion
• The Passenger
• His Light Carries On
• From Samanera to Bhikkhu: The Life of a Traditional Theravada Monk
• How To Start Eating Better
• The Macrocosm Perspective
• Human Sexuality Defined
• Alone In The Dark
• Nationalism and Police Brutality: The Deafening Sound of Ignorance
• The Middle Way and the Turning of the Wheel
• Identity Politics and the Slow Death of the American Moral Landscape
• The Thousand Year Journey
• His Empty Soul
• The Choice That Never Was
• No Arrival, No Destination, Just Being
• Respect For Living Things
• ​Abortion, Abstinence, Abuse, Birth Control, Teen Sex, and Unwanted Pregnancy
• ​The Algorithm Specs Behind Facebook’s “People You May Know” Suggestions
• The Darkest Corners of the Cyber World: Sexual Predation and Exploitation
• Freckles: Chapter Seventeen
• Everywhere You Go, There You Are
• Words To Live By
• Transgender in America
• On Faith and Fallacy: My Journey Out Of Christianity
• The Wall, Illegal Immigration, and the U.S. – Mexican Border
• Abortion
• Lotus in a Lake of Fire
• How Climate Change Affects Our Lives
• Muslim Refugees, Christianity and the Future of Freedom
• In Search of Self
• On Labels and Identity
• It’s Been A While
• Freckles: Chapter Sixteen
• Freckles: Chapter Fifteen
• Freckles: Chapter Fourteen
• Freckles: Chapter Thirteen
• Freckles: Chapter Twelve
• Freckles: Chapter Eleven
• Freckles: Chapter Ten
• Freckles: Chapter Nine
• Freckles: Chapter Eight
• Freckles: Chapter Seven
• Freckles: Chapter Six
• Freckles: Chapter Five
• Ubiquitous
• The Four Cornerstones
• Freckles: Chapter Four
• Freckles: Chapter Three
• Freckles: Chapter Two
• The Darklord
• Crash
• Freckles: Chapter One
• Anger, Violence, Death, and Regret
• Of God
• The Erosion of the Sagacious American Intellect
• Lemmings and Other Things
• Self-Reflection: To End A Cold, Damp Day
• The Man In The Mirror
• Two Journeys, One Life
• Keep You: Part Two
• Keep You: Part One
• The Demon In Me
• A River of Undying Flames
• Autumn Calls You Home
• These Walls, That Shadow, Those Memories and This Soul
• Meditation
• A Portal to My Mind
• At Peace With Goodbye
• Knowing the Road Ahead
• The Starry Night
• Asylum of My Mind: A Beckoning to Darker Places
• My Heart in the Sun
• The Sun Will Rise Again
• From Under the Thumbs of Demons
• The Poet’s Path: A Life of Pain
• Premonitions and Restitution
• Playing Chess With Demons
• The War of Depression: A Synopsis