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Prayer...Why didn't you Ask?
Why Didn’t You Ask? A simple question—but one that opens up the entire structure of our being. For me, prayer was a difficult topic. I...
Bradley J Cleary
Jul 276 min read


What Is the Ego Really?
There was a time when I believed I had to fight against myself. That the thoughts, the emotions, the cravings—the things that pulled me...
Bradley J Cleary
Jun 265 min read


What We Hold, Holds Us
A journal entry from 2012 I can't keep waiting to write about something I can say, I know! So I begin with what I don’t know. I don’t...
Bradley J Cleary
Jun 64 min read


Our Shift to Bestowal
We live in a world built upon reason. It is the foundation of everything we trust—our senses, our logic and the structures we rely on to...
Bradley J Cleary
Mar 96 min read


The Quest for Meaning
I used to think life's biggest questions were impossible to answer. They’d show up unexpectedly— Why am I here? What's the point of all...
Bradley Jonathon Cleary
Feb 233 min read


From Toward Onward
The Illusion of Free Will I don’t know at what age it was exactly when I first started to feel it. That sense that my life wasn’t mine—in...
Bradley Jonathon Cleary
Feb 123 min read


The Evolution of Us
Most of the writing you’ll find here comes from the inner trenches—from those moments when life’s questions press in and refuse to be...
Bradley Jonathon Cleary
Feb 54 min read


The Purpose Equation
There’s a moment in life—sometimes small, sometimes impossible to ignore—when something shifts. "I can’t go back to the way things were."...
Bradley Jonathon Cleary
Jan 264 min read


The Space Between Us
Is wanting love, love? It sounds like a simple question, with a straightforward answer. But It’s a question that’s been living with me...
Bradley Jonathon Cleary
Jan 223 min read


Exploring Life's Depths
There was a time when I thought meaning would arrive like a thunderclap—something undeniable, something final. I imagined an event so...
Bradley Jonathon Cleary
Dec 29, 20245 min read


The Power of Adversity
I’ve been sitting with a strange question lately: What if suffering isn't a punishment for what we're doing wrong, but the proof that...
Bradley Jonathon Cleary
Dec 25, 20244 min read


The Battle Within
It’s strange how often life feels like a quiet tug-of-war. Not between us and the world, but within ourselves—between what we want and...
Bradley Jonathon Cleary
Dec 25, 20243 min read


Know Thyself
"Know thyself" (Greek: Γνῶθι σαυτόν, gnōthi sauton) is a philosophical maxim which was inscribed upon the Temple of Apollo in the ancient...
Bradley Jonathon Cleary
Dec 22, 20245 min read
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