how to (not) make a life


Mulika Ojikutu-Harnett Mulika Ojikutu-Harnett

Patterns That Repeat Keep Us Company

There is a peculiar longing in the way we return to where the hurt is. In this post, I look at trauma from an Intrarelational perspective, specifically the phenomenon of the repeated patterns of a forgotten or remembered past.

Trauma is not merely what happens to the I, but how I organises being in the world around its aftermath. Hence repeating patterns that keep us company over a life…

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Bruisewort

Choose experience; to try.

To test.

To remember trial has roots.

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Let Us Find a Way Together of Being Human

Let us find a way of being together
Let us permit ourselves to try something new
Let us find a way of being together
Let us lead with revelation, and let precepts be

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Enough

You can run as fast as your desires
but you are not going to outrun
yourself.

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The Ground of Awareness

To the casual observer I may indeed look exactly like I did yesterday…

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Non-Geographically Bound

And the self that I meet on the mat becomes me,
Becomes this self I carry off the mat, and into the world.

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