Sharpen Your Soul

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It’s almost time! Just one day away, and #TheMysticDiscourses vol.2 will arrive 📗

“Sharpen Your Soul: a Spiritual Guide to Practical Growth” drops tomorrow: Sunday!

This collection of philosophical essays is designed to help rewire our spiritual life (our habits of thought, emotion, and action) in ways that will benefit our day-to-day life... or in other words: a “spiritual” guide for our “practical” growth. 📝📖📚💯🙌

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📚 Are you ready to Sharpen Your Soul? Volume 2 of “The Mystic Discourses” is coming out this week! 📖 Finally, the titular book of my blog and philosophy: “Sharpen Your Soul” is almost here! ☺️

Volume 1 “The Mosaic Man” speaks through poetry & parables about the pilgrimage we take toward wholeness. If you haven’t gotten a copy of of it yet you can grab one here: 📚👉 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08N928SHB/ 👈😄🙌

The Mosaic Man: With Other Parables, Proverbs, & Poetry [Anthony, Jared] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Mosaic Man

Yet this newest installment: “Sharpen Your Soul,” has a whole new lay out! It takes the form of a series of teachings, as would be passed from master to student, all regarding living a noble life. And all of which, I hope will be edifying and helpful to any who seek a higher path for bringing growth to their lives through the disciplines that spring from grace.

Stay tuned for “Sharpen Your Soul” to drop at the end of this Easter week!

Stay sharp everyone!

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Always Face It

Always face what haunts you. To rob it of its mystery is to rob it of its power. Always face what challenges you! Then the worst things you can imagine will always be behind you. Then, everything ahead of you is freedom.

Suffering is not the enemy of liberation. It is not something to be fled in pursuit of enlightenment, or glory, or peace. Neither is it somehow our pleasure,…

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Who You Are Who you most are is who you will become. So fix your eyes ahead: what you see will define you. For more on goal-oriented mindsets, check out CrossSwordsWay.com

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Haiku II

wind chimes in the soul

our own laughter echoes there

soul chimes in the wind.

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Don't Unfriend Me

Don’t Unfriend Me

The current trend on social media is troubling.  Most would agree.  While everyone agrees that things are troubling right now, it’s the divisions over whyit is troubling, that is the important point.  Whether some are troubled deeply over the injustice they see, and others are troubled over the violence coming as a result, neither of these impulses should be silenced.  This is especially true…

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A Thousand Voices

The fight is won.  The fight is lost. “One nation under all we trust” The cry lifted to rally where Some thousand varied banners stare.

The revolution burns anew! Chorus, as once afore, sing out: “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit!” Some thousand hopes, and all their doubts.

The night is black.  The night is red. The swords are drawn, and hearts have bled. “For change, at last, we name one dream!” Some…

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Haiku for the moment

It happens upon

Yet it will never be found

Wind on Summer days

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The one who holds

The one who holds

Why then have I come? To own or enjoy To love or master These many wonders? To seclude myself Seeking for control I will soon be lost. Yet, if I let go And relinquish me… What then holds my soul?

Who is the knower? And what do they know? Is it I, who know? Or am I the known? Does the true mind see Or heart understand, Why I have arrived At their endless shores? None can know of this, But the one who holds.

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A Humble Rebellion

I see a problem in our ways. It haunts our attempts to make things right, it shows itself in every evil. I think Its nature is in reaction, and like a shadow cannot be fought with fire.

We are not fighting fire with fire, friends and countrymen of the world.  Our Enemy is that shadow, and it can only be fought with Light.  But this is my last abstract word on the matter, for too much poetry has…

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Now is Never the Distraction

Some meditations; 6/1/2020

The here and now Is where the world loves to turn. All there ever is.

Knowledge may be given to us. Wisdom is only ever found.

The cost of each thing, is the thing itself And so, you must lose your life to find it. The goal is the sowing, not the reaping. You reap what you sow; you are how you grow.

To understand, is to divide a thing. To experience, is to unite…

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The Final Page

This is the last page of my journal. I’ve been afraid to write in it. But stacks of other notebooks await: old gifts from friends accumulating.

There’s nothing truly left that I can, think to fill this final lonely page. Still I’m pointlessly holding to it, cause I’ve had this book so many years.

Maybe then it is like love to me. And I have to let it go, to be… Maybe then it is like…

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All That Once Was What once enlightened now enslaves meFor all our blissful feints of insightturn stale and weary in these seasons.

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The Dance of Wisdom

I could write a poem about this. But if I did, the thinkers may overlook it as poetry. The artists may enjoy it as poetry. But the thinkers may miss its meaning. And the artists –while loving meaning– may overlook its challenge.

So here is a thought on Wisdom, and its true form.

The Balance of Uncertainty

It often comes to the person of inner thought, to wonder at the nature of that thought and…

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No More to Frolic in the Sun

No more to frolic in the sun Where dreams are grown and battles won There ageless and immortal stands: The fair, the lost, great myth of man.

Once we, where hallowed in our wants Would weave our worlds into a song Until the age of reason wrung …a terrible end to the dance.

Without a laughing final spin The sergeant of our doom barged in To order all our nonsense, right! We’d only to agree with him.

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Truer Are Wisdoms Perplex on this nature of human condition: Complexity in us grows only perdition. For knowledge is…

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Not (our) Victory

“When success isn’t the issue, success becomes the reality” – Steve Brown

You may not know this.

Did you know what “Satan” translates to?  Some say the “adversary,” or the “accuser.”   He’s not just the “King of Bad Guys” who likes when people sin.  But he’s the one who levels accusations.   He’s the one who constantly lays reproach against God’s children and says, “Look!  They are notrighteous. …

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