"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in"

The quote above is from Leonard Cohen. Since awareness and mindfulness practice is ultimately about being human—observing, witnessing, and embracing tenderly without judgment—I’ve decided to share some deeply personal writings from the past few years. You’ll find them marked as Uncensored.

Although I am an awareness practitioner and mentor—living this as both profession and passion—first and foremost, I am (surprise, surprise) a human being. And that’s the level that connects us all. It’s where we truly meet.

Back then, I had already shared some of these writings in a blog. At the beginning of that blog, I had placed the quote above and this note:

“This blog is nothing more than words, yet born from—or created during—personal, heartfelt, individual experiences of being human. Of being. It’s fragments, beginnings of books never written, emails, messages, letters to people—real or fictional—poems, reflections… in several languages, with no chronological order and no claim to hold THE truth. But—these words were simply true at the time. They are real. They are. Be.”

In general, my writing—when it’s just for myself—is often born in times of difficulty.

When I’m overwhelmed, when the pain is too much to hold, when I can’t see light at the end of the tunnel. I’ve written in those raw spaces. Often, it was relationships—their intensity, their changes, or their endings—that moved me so deeply I couldn’t not write. The writing almost created itself.

To anyone who has never written: if you do, allow yourself to be free.

Absolutely free.

Let yourself express without holding back.

The white page is infinite space.

It’s neutral.

It doesn’t judge.

There is no censor here.

Awareness, or consciousness, does not refuse or resist anything. It does not interfere. It doesn’t label things as good or bad. It moves beyond duality and the limiting framework of the mind. It shines light into the shadows. It is about inclusion, acceptance, and integration of what is.

Let yourself integrate—through meditation or awareness practice, through writing, through movement, through nature or anything else that allows you to sense and connect with that open, neutral, all embracing space inside.

It’s about finding that space where you are allowed to be—in your full, glorious, infinitely beautiful imperfection.

Exactly as you are.Exactly as you feel.

To end, I leave you with this quote from Montaigne:

“I am a man; I consider nothing human alien to me.”