HeyJaredDamien Echols
Writer, public speaker, black belt in Tang Soo Do/Korean Karate.
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- Aug 26, 2026
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Cherry Blossoms (opens the original)
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I think one of the strangest things about getting older is realizing how much of life disappears without our noticing it.There are periods of my life that I can see so clearly now. Certain houses. Certain rooms. People I knew. Music I was listening to. The way the light looked at a particular time of year. At the time, none of it seemed especially important. It was simply where I was. I was probably thinking about what came next, what I wanted to change, what I was waiting for. Now I would give
The Power of Places (opens the original)
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Places have always mattered in every spiritual tradition on earth. It’s because places accumulate qualities the same way people do. Just as a person can become shaped by years of disciplined practice, prayer, violence, celebration, or grief, a place can also be conditioned by what repeatedly happens there. The ancients understood this instinctively. The… Read more
“Crossing the Abyss” is not the completion of the Great Work - it is the beginning. (opens the original)
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People sometimes talk about “crossing the Abyss” as if it were the grandest supernatural event a human being could experience. They imagine it being something like an explosion of consciousness, or an ascent into some divine realm, or a permanent state of ecstasy in which ordinary life disappears. The cryptic language surrounding it often encourages thi… Read more
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