The Philosophy of the Titanium Don
Ramblings

Category: Pathwalking

Caring About Other People Is NEVER a Weakness

Caring about other people reflects our own desires, after all. Too many of the people in the current US Government administration don’t care about anyone other than themselves. Read any social media post from the President, the words of most of the department secretaries, and too much of Congress, and it’s utterly clear. The message is guard yourself, your “people,” and fuck those guys. It’s incredibly disheartening. What’s more, too many people are accepting it as the new normal and

Fear Has No Place On My Path

Time to send the fear packing! I’m tired of living in fear. And in this instance, I’m not talking about the fear-based elements of this society. I’m talking about the fears that have kept me from being less than I know I can be. More than once in my life, I shrank away from doing something I believed I could/should do. Maybe I went halfway, maybe I started. But on too many occasions, I backed down, self-sabotaged, and/or allowed myself

What Internal BS is Blocking Me This Time?

Something in my head, buried deep, is holding me back. There are two reasons I write these explorations into mindfulness, nontoxic positivity, conscious reality creation, and the like. The first is to share these ideas, put the notions out into the universe in plain language so that I can help others discover a different approach to life, the universe, and everything. Too many forces in the world want to keep us small, and anything I can do to address this

Digging Into Mental Blocks Dislodges Obstacles on Your Path

This is not something to be done lightly. I’ve been in and out of therapy most of my life. It began after my parents’ divorce when I was 5 or 6. Over the years, I’ve seen a wide variety of psychologists and psychiatrists. Some have been incredibly helpful, some less so. But good therapists have helped me understand myself and the world I live in more clearly mentally, emotionally, and even spiritually. Mental health is too easily taken for granted.

Who You Are Now Isn’t Who You Were or Who You Will Be

Take comfort in the fact that nothing is set in stone. It’s hard not to look at the big picture of the world around us and not feel concern. This isn’t helped by the bombardment and overwhelm of stories about ongoing atrocities and awfulness internationally and domestically. You can quickly lose hope, especially if you doomscroll on social media. There is very little you can do about the big picture world. Most of it is far beyond you and your

Why Be Mindful of the Divisive?

Because that way lies madness. Everywhere you turn, especially across social media, the narrative loudly screams about “US” vs “THEM”. The emphasis on the extremes and how “we” need to protect ourselves from “they” is utterly out of hand. When all is said and done, no matter what divisive label you apply, people aren’t so radically different. Have you ever met anyone who doesn’t want to have fairness, compassion, and empathy in their life? I haven’t. These are universal desires

What is This Nagging Sense I Can’t Shake?

It’s been with me for a while, and I can’t put my finger on it. I have this odd, nagging sense that something’s off that I just can’t shake. And it’s been nagging at me for quite some time now. Maybe it’s the craziness of the big picture elements of the world. As much as I’m careful about how much time I spend on social media and how little I read or watch the news, the madness of the world’s

It’s Okay To Feel Scared

But it’s not okay to let fear overwhelm your life. There’s no denying we live in wild, crazy times right now. Spend any time on social media, reading or watching any news media, and you can’t help but feel uncertain, and maybe even scared. How did it all come to this? When did people allow so many madmen to take control? Why won’t the people who can fix this do something? Has selfishness and thirst for power really overwhelmed any

Hold Yourself Accountable First

This is about being responsible, not taking blame. I strive to maintain optimism. Not blind, all-is-well-that-shit-is-not-happening optimism, but a sense that the scales will rebalance, the pendulum can be swung the other way, and we can do little things to impact the big picture. The problem is, most of those little things are for you, and only you. No matter what you do for anyone else, you can’t alter, control, or change them. You can influence, guide, suggest, and show

Everybody Knows Something Until What They Know Changes

Parsing this is a conscious effort you alone can undertake. I call myself a modern-day philosopher. The focal point of my personal philosophy is what I call Pathwalking. Pathwalking is the notion that, via mindfulness – active conscious awareness – you can choose how you shape your life experience and what paths you take therein. I’ve been writing about this every week for over 14 years now, and aspects of it have changed because I’ve changed. Change, after all, is

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