By Adam J. Pearson Though the flurries of lifeBreathe fury and strife,And the chills strikeCold to the bone,Still, I do not fear,Or yet despair,For I know that I’m not alone. When the blizzard of sufferingCuts like a knife,And ice spreads in my heartAnd it groans,I do not give in,When hope strips thin,For your arms and…
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Aligning with the Source: Unlocking Hidden Meanings of “Worship” in Ancient Hebrew, Greek, and English
By Adam J. Pearson “Whoever gives reverence, Receives reverence.” ~ Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī in the Masnavi-i Ma’navi (Persian: مثنوی معنوی) (Sidek, 2015). A Brief Introduction to the Idea of Worship in Postmodern Context: Recovering a Key to Wise Living and Right Relationship with Being “Worship” is a fascinating concept that has in some ways become foreign to contemporary…
“Modernity has Failed Us:” The 1975’s “Love It If We Made It” as a Commentary on Three Contemporary Social Trends with Concrete Policy Implications
By Adam J. Pearson An Introduction to Modern Failures: Social Policy and The 1975’s“Love It If We Made it” The perennial role of the artist is to reach deeply into the ethos of a culture or the zeitgeist of an age and manifest its core essence in creative form. In their 2018 single “Love It…
The Innocent Habit of Believing Unloving Thoughts
By Adam J. Pearson Friend: Things are slowly working out for me but I’m really struggling today and succumbing to suicidal thoughts. Me: I’m happy to hear that you feel that things are slowly working out. Healing and growth are a process and moments of struggle along the way are a normal part of that….
The Nondual Love of Rumi
By Adam J. Pearson I desire you more than food and drink My body my senses my mind hunger for your taste I can sense your presence in my heart although you belong to all the world I wait with silent passion for one gesture one glance from you” ― Jalaluddin Rumi, The Love Poems…
Beauty, Wonder, and the Invitation Home
By Adam J. Pearson When I see something, someone, some action, or some scene that strikes me as beautiful, the recognition of beauty ripples and resonates as wonder. Beauty inspires awe. Awe or wonder, to me, is a state of speechless openness and total presence. Did you ever notice that love is like this too?…
No One Has Ever Hated Themselves
By Adam J. Pearson Introduction: You’ve Never Hated What You Are, Only What You Believed You Were One of the most shocking things I ever discovered is that no one has ever hated themselves. Really. And trust me, I thought I did. There were periods that I thought I hated myself badly enough to want…
Love Song of a Digital Age
By Adam J. Pearson Hopeful hearts racing through typing, singing fingers ringing lines, Boys and girls gazing into screens like portals of golden wine, Whizzing words of passion, wanting, through cyber wormholes inside Ricocheting off of websites, whirling wonders multiplied, Wild hopes soaring, arcing worries, rising highly, gliding by, High like power lines and satellites in…
The Madness of Our Present Situation
By Adam J. Pearson Such is the madness Of our present situation that… Being freedom itself, We come to believe we are bound, And desperately seek to become free, For the bound self we believe we are. Being the source of all love, We come to believe we are unlovable, And fervently seek to find love, For…
Laughing Away Our Body Beliefs
By Adam J. Pearson Today, looking in the mirror, Old thoughts returned to memory, Thoughts that used to weigh so heavy –pun intended– Thoughts about how the body should “be different” In order for “me,” Identified with the body, To be worthy– “This nose is too big and the wrong shape,” “These biceps are too small”…
Words from the Wind 