Author: Marvin Allen

  • He who saw the deep

    He who saw the deep

    How deep can we go before we end up back at the top? Eventually, life always finds a way, but it may be a very different one from the one we had imagined. Perhaps, then, the key is not being attached to the outcome but to enjoy the process. And to place greater trust in…

  • Trust in Life

    Trust in Life

    What do you want? What is it?Complete surrender? Entering the void without any fear. Fine, you got me.Here I stand, naked, alone.And yet there is some primal nature no one can ever take away.Step into the void with complete confidence and nothing bad can happen. Trust. In the universe, myself, God, Nature, you.And all are…

  • Ease and Delight

    Ease and Delight

    What else is there? The question is whether you trust in life and yourself.Which is basically the same thing. And perhaps once the trust is established the answers will come from within.Let’s connect to the stream of human events and evolve on.From the civilization of the great Inca to the Roman Empire and beyond. There…

  • Moonlight

    Moonlight

    Old souls outside the windowand in my backyard.I usually pass by without notice, but todayI stopped.Hi, is everything alright — I said.Anguish.Yes –Stumbling on on gravel roads — Thanks. The rest passed in stillnessMy only companion — the moon.But only halfjudging me from afarlike you know what it’s like to be a human being on…

  • Breaking Point

    Breaking Point

    When will we begin to realize that all the best things in life are those we consider least? And what a time we live in to actively have to fight for what’s true and good. In ancient times culture and tradition used to guide us on virtues, and now, it appears as though we must…

  • Deep Work

    Deep Work

    So, I’m sitting here doing deep work.At least that’s what I tell myself.Perhaps deep work actually requires more than just sitting still for prolonged periods of time. Is writing deep work?Is thinking?What is? And what does all of it matter without her?Perhaps someday I will understand the meaning of all this and it will be…