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  • The Value of Invisibility

    The Value of Invisibility: How Being Overlooked Can Develop Resilient Humility & Strength By Gene Burke You put everything into a project, time, energy, long nights, and careful planning. You adjust strategy, track metrics, refine your approach, and keep iterating. You do everything by the book. And still, nothing changes. No visible results. Silence. You…

  • You Are the Sky, Not the Clouds

    There’s a quiet, powerful shift that happens when you begin to understand this simple truth:You are the sky. Your thoughts are just the clouds. Not the storm. Not the turbulence. Not the shifting winds.Just the sky, wide, steady, timeless. Within each of us is a vast inner space, an open sky that is our mind.…

  • The Curse of Unconscious Living

    There’s a quiet, invisible curse running through much of modern Western life, one so normalized, so embedded in our culture, that many of us don’t even realize we’re under its influence. It’s not some grand tragedy or external evil. It’s something far subtler, yet far more devastating. It’s the curse of unconscious living, of walking…

  • Osu no Seishin-The Spirit of Perseverance in Real Life

    There’s a phrase that resonates deeply with me, Osu no Seishin. In martial arts, especially in disciplines like Kyokushin karate, this phrase embodies the “spirit of perseverance,” or more literally, “to push through.” It’s a mindset forged in sweat, repetition, and quiet struggle. And it doesn’t just belong in the dojo, it belongs everywhere. It…