John Merideth lives in Atlanta, Georgia and is the author of Spiritually Ambitious...a blog touching on the existential twists and turns of contemporary life. He is also an artist and film maker and healthy living/loving advocate.
The power to trust in your process develops with a commitment to finding a path into what you want, into your passion. The power in trusting those we live our lives with comes from knowing our own inner strength and being transparent with our choices.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
-Henry David Thoreau
I find the most difficult part of living without a fixed external anchor to be the internal work required to sustain my own growth. With no one to compare my life success to, it can become tough to know when to step down from the exhilaration of the next challenge or equally arduous to know if I have explored an area fully.
No one is equipped to just move on from suicide; it is like the ultimate psychological blow. It knocks you down, and while you are falling it looks you in the eye and says, “how dare you assume beauty is enough to carry on?”
There is no distance between us. The atoms making up my transition into tomorrow could be some of the very same atoms he holds in his gaze. We are all variations on a theme. Genomic expressions of similar differences.
The problem isn't so much whether language succeeds or fails at signifying the real, it is our refusal to acknowledge the "realness" of language unto itself...I see this as a third thing existing outside of but also within the real...it is the feedback loop we know as consciousness.
There is ambiguity and chaos and revolution on every street corner, in every city and within any relationship. It is seeing the stranger in someone you have know for decades.
Real transformative beauty shatters our awareness of what we know...it transfixes us and simultaneously forces us to acknowledge the transience of any experience.
The problem faced by the individual within culture is one of isolation and incoherence.
Merideth Method®
John is a resilience and life strategist, he works with clients to develop strategies for continued growth as well as healthy responses to adversity. His mission is to help clients find strength in their pain, opportunity in their adversity, and courage in their suffering and joy in their success.