Author: Darius E. Bennett, JD
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I Can Only Be Me
Flowers will not bloom until it is their season, as we would not be here unless it was our destiny. But how many times have you wished you were in spaces, time, places than what...
Insinuations and Accusations: How Words Destroyed Me
“Be impeccable with your word…The word is a force; it is the power you have to express and communicate, to think and thereby to create the events in your life…The word is the most powerful...
Darius E. Bennett, Esq. Returns: Learning to Live (Fully)
“The biggest mistake is being afraid to make mistakes. To get better, you have to make a few errors until you get the hang of it. So don’t play it safe.” — Venus Williams, entrepreneur, author,...
Is This the End? (Bringing The Pandemic to an Emotional Close)
Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Keep going. No feeling is final. -Rainer Maria Rilke, Go to the Limits of Your Longing René Karl Wihelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, better known as Rainer Maria...
Joy, The Odyssey: Pandemic Tales
“Letting go gives rise to joy and happiness. We need to sit down with a piece of paper and write down the things we can let go of. We’re still caught in many things. We’re...
As I Sat, Waiting to Live: Pandemic Tales
“’Tenía que llegarme hoy con seguridad, dijo el coronel.’ El administrador se encogió de hombros. ‘Lo único que llega con seguridad es la muerte, coronel.’” “’It was supposed to arrive today; it was certain, insisted...
Paul and the Lamenter’s Courage
When I lose, the pain is so intense, and the emotions roll through me. Facing a loss where I know I could have done better is even harder. When I do think about the losses,...
You Have a Friend
“Each of us has a rainbow in the clouds. And the fantastic, most wonderful piece of news is each of us has a possibility of being a rainbow in somebody’s cloud. Isn’t that amazing? Somebody...
Shhhhh! Listen
“I’m in route. I’m further along than I was. But I am still in route. I know I know enough to try to live what I know. Now that’s a lot! But I still don’t...
When I Was Wool
“We have the tendency to make assumptions about everything. The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth . We could swear they are real.” — The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruíz In The Four...
Awash in Naiveté
“One can’t understand everything at once, we can’t begin with perfection all at once…And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan’t understand them thoroughly.” — The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky Aiming to portray “a truly...
Grains of Sand Escape Even Tightly-Clenched Hands
“To love is not to possess the other person or to consume all their attention and love.” — Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Live In his five-part treatise “How to Live,” Thich Nhat Hanh teaches healthy...