Beloved - Temple of Life

A living emblem of the Four Pillars.

Beloved Temple of Life by the stream — four pillars rising from a stone foundation with an engraved roof.

Four pillars rise from the foundation I know:

  • 🌱 Recovery – the steadfast return to balance.
  • 🙏 Yoga – devotion in action, life as practice.
  • 🕉️ Spiritual – awakening into the Beloved.
  • 📚 Academic – sharpening the mind in service of truth.

They stand upon the bedrock of Awakenig, Presence, Compassion, and Truth, stone weathered by time yet strong enough to hold the weight of my becoming.

  • 🪨 Awakening (East) “I rise like the morning sun. I am the spark of realization, the shift of perception, the sudden seeing that changes everything. Stand upon me and know: each moment is a new dawn.”
  • 🪨 Presence (North) “I hold you in the now. No past regret, no future worry — only the breath, the step, the stillness alive here. Stand upon me and know: you are home.”
  • 🪨 Compassion (South) “I soften the seeing. Awareness becomes gentle when filtered through my heart. I hold the suffering, yours and others’, and I transform it into care. Stand upon me and know: love is action.”
  • 🪨 Truth (West) “I align. I cut through delusion, through the masks of the Stumbler, through the easy lies. I am sincerity and integrity. Stand upon me and know: you are whole only when you are real.”

Above all, the roof whispers its name: Beloved - Temple of Life. The ancestral eye gazes from the triangle of truth, reminding that nothing here is hidden from The Beloved.

And yet — behind, in the mystery — two pillars stand without names. They hold up the structure, silent, waiting. They do not demand my attention; they ask only for patience. Their names will reveal themselves when the time is ripe, when the seeker is steady enough to hear them.

For now, I bow to the mystery, knowing the temple is complete even in its hiddenness. What is unseen does not weaken the structure; it deepens the wonder.