We often place great importance on popularity, especially in today’s world.

Yet many of the most profound works we now celebrate were overlooked in their time.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, the author of Crime and Punishment, never experienced true success during his life. Still, he believed his words would matter one day. Today, he stands as one of the m…[Read more]

The sage lives in isolation high on a mountainside. He says that he does so because society ultimately rejected his truths, and he is seeking peace in retirement.

He urges Laolys that his path is still ahead of him, and he can’t live in retirement as he does. Laolys has to go into the world, apply his wisdom, and try to change it, regardless of…[Read more]

In The Young Man and the Sage, the sage describes how the world isn’t saveable. He tried to save it, to teach people to wake up to see things differently, but most people didn’t want to listen.

This brings up a compelling question: Can we help to improve society if society doesn’t want the help?

Most likely, we can’t work to change the majority…[Read more]

We often hear that to change the world, we must be “in it.” But what about those who choose a different path?

Can someone who retreats from society—whether out of disillusionment, spiritual focus, or moral resistance—still offer something meaningful to the collective? Does stepping away from the noise grant a clearer view of the whole?…[Read more]

Karma is not a reward/punishment system, it is a resonant system.
Pain is a teacher.
Relationships are a mirror of our own resonance.

“Suffering arises when we fail to mend our ways. When we repeat the same mistakes, we manifest the same consequences and remain bound to the same cycle.”
— The Young Man and the Sage, Chapter 2 Primer

When we ke…[Read more]