By Adam J. Pearson Lady on the train,She’s wearing sunscreenOn a day of rain. There’s beauty in her hope,Which knows the sunWill shine again. Water falls like tears,But she sees lightDespite the pain. She’s still wearing sunscreenOn a day of rain,Lady on the train.
Tag: sadness
We Were Never Broken: Beyond the Sense of Lack, Incompleteness, and Deficiency
By Adam J. Pearson We were never broken. That’s a helpful thing to see. It’s helpful to see because many of us experience a gnawing sense that we are not enough as we are and need to become enough, that we are deficient as we are and need to become worthy of love and belonging,…
The Vibrancy of Life and the Deadness of the “Story of Me”
By Adam J. Pearson The mind’s constant storytelling about “me” and “my” and “mine” is so clearly… dead. It’s a mental process generated by a live brain, but its content is dead: its focus is the past and the future, the past it remembers, the future it imagines. The storytelling takes it for granted that behind its river-flow of thoughts…
The Difference Between Seeing A Thought or Emotion and Looking From It
This is the most fundamental thing to understand: the heaviness that “my” thoughts and feelings seem to have isn’t in the thoughts and feelings; it’s in the “my.”
Do You Know?
By Adam J. Pearson Do you know that you have value? Do you know how much you’ve grown? Do you know we’re all still growing? Do you know you’re not alone? Do you know that you are worthy? Do you know that there is hope? Do you know that your life matters? Do you know that you can…
Atrium
by Adam Pearson For the woman who tried to murder me. how could those gentle hands that stroked my hair with love and tenderness as soft as down– (–I’ll keep you safe, and love you forever, no matter what, we will have each other–) –have tensed themselves like snakes around my neck to strangle me…
The Prison and the Key: Why I Write About Shame
By Adam J. Pearson The Wisdom of Eamonn Perkins Eamonn Perkins is a wise, humble and tremendously compassionate teacher from Ireland who spends much of his time working with addicts and prisoners. He’s so low-key that, as of this writing, he doesn’t even have a website. In a 2014 interview, Eamonn said something brilliantly concise and and equally incisive: “If you…
Words from the Wind 