Metrics take more from the soul than they give.

– Osasu Oviawe

Every house starts falling apart with a long stay.

The solution is not a “no stay” because that accelerates its decline even further.

To maintain and improve things takes care and work that largely goes thankless. So when you see a house well cared for, there’s a wrinkling skin and twinkling eye behind the veil.

The same applies in relationships.

– Osasu Oviawe

Home is a place.

We understand this at the beginning and end of life.

In between, we get disillusioned that it is people.

But home is a place. The people are a part of the place.

Some are lucky to have such a place from birth. It is a wealth that is unrivaled.

Some find it in adulthood and build everything around it. It is a centering that is joyful.

Many find it in death and finally rest in peace. It is a peace that is found too late.

No matter what life’s adventure brings, prioritize finding or creating a place you call home.

– Osasu Oviawe

Expand your possibilities, narrow your choices.

For just as limited possibilities cage you, unlimited choices paralyze you.

Look up to the horizon, but focus on the next step ahead.

– Osasu Oviawe

Writing has been my favorite escape since I found it.

Reading is the doorman that opens or shuts the path of my exit.

To write freely, I read widely.

– Osasu Oviawe

Every person you meet is writing a story.

You can be the start of a new chapter or the end of a previous one.

Whichever you are, let it be beautiful.

– Osasu Oviawe

We were here long before consciousness.

We will be here long after consciousness.

But for the time we are here, we are going to explore the depths, breadths, and heights of consciousness.

– Osasu Oviawe

Set the bar high enough that they stretch to reach it and low enough that they do not strain.

– Osasu Oviawe

Walking in the dark heightens dependence on the other four senses and activates the sixth sense.

Without seeing where we are going, we move with caution, reaching for the familiar as a guide to our next step.

Speed is deprioritized because direction is the only protection from harm. We quickly learn that stillness is the source of all direction. Stillness is not surrender, but connection to the environment. And in that connection, everything becomes one.

No one knows what tomorrow brings, but the discerning know what it requires: direction, with an adjustable pace.

Moving steadily towards the day that the light never runs out.

– Osasu Oviawe

Storms uproot what no longer fits. The mess in their wake is an opportunity to clear house. And if the house is not clean enough, they will tear it down again and again until only what is necessary stands.

The storm never passes until you pass its test.

A test to declutter everything that does not serve your roots.

– Osasu Oviawe