Where does it come from, The longing to be stronger, Richer, With a healthier or more beautiful spouse? On better land? With surer footing in the world? Where does it come from, The feeling of missing one another? My father, my sister, my brother, my kin, All are so far away; I want to return… Continue reading Receding into death
Tag: Spirituality
Love meets purpose
You searched and pined for the one to love, The perfect one, The one who would return that love, Would make you whole. In each situation, Your founding expectation rendered this person something other than they were, An illusory object that you could cradle, Possess, Lust for, But that was never really yours. In the… Continue reading Love meets purpose
The silence and its meaning
Deep within you is a quiet space From which you were born, and which you will return to upon your death. Even when you forget it while in life, it is there; It is the space in which the experience of your forgetting is contained. You can feel this if you meditate: That deep-down hum,… Continue reading The silence and its meaning
Why do we judge? (spiritual talk)
Attached is one of my favorite videos I’ve done, at least second to the one that started it all. It is an exploration and disambiguation of judgement—short and simple, clocking in at just under thirty minutes. Some of the questions include the following: what is judgement? How does it function? Why do we persist in… Continue reading Why do we judge? (spiritual talk)
Obituary to my childhood self
You are responsible for some of my earliest memories. Not earliest, I suppose—we didn’t meet until I was seven years old. Still, the memories feel primordial: they feel like they coincide with the genesis of my being. Playing in New Mexico, I remember vast expanses of hills and trees, valleys into which we would look… Continue reading Obituary to my childhood self
Jackson Holzberg Buckley 