Reading Time: 10 minutes “I stand before my highest mountain, and before my longest journey, and ,therefore, must I descend deeper than I have ever before descended.” (Nietzsche) “The crucial element I wish to consider here is that element of a life which we consider to be an identity; the way in which one …
Reading Time: 3 minutes I would like to continue the notion from the previous post of “life has its own restraints.” As previously stated, when people are oppressed and denied freedom of will, then, for peace of mind, one attempts to sort out purusha from prakriti. Purusha as the existence of pure being …
Reading Time: 3 minutes It was not until I turned fifty did I begin to embrace my being African American in a white world.I have often wondered about the ability to survive tragic suffering such as slavery.Where can the mind go under such circumstances and not want to die right then and there? What …
Reading Time: 2 minutes My life is built from African languages and dances long since forgotten —–Disrupted by greed and slave ships. My life is built on beatings, screams in the dark, and lynchings still —–echoed in police shootings, overzealous incarcerations, and —–babies without a village. I live in a state of forgiveness. —–For …