Inner Journey Essay

evolves from a simple hobbit to a true hero. Bilbo Baggins faces many difficulties on his decent into the nadir, where he becomes his true adventurous self; exerting great courage, leadership, wits, and perseverance, which allows him to slay his inner-dragon. At the beginning of the story, not only is Bilbo unconscious…

“The Life of Pi” and The Happiness of True Salvation The constant hope to find true happiness and bliss is an essential component of human nature. As Pi finds himself within the short reach of salvation he is overcome by relief as his days of hardship perchance to come to an end: “Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?” (260). Salvation does not just materialize out of thin air but is found in the challenges faced everyday by man. In the novel, Life of Pi, Yann…

We are alive in the most exciting, interesting or perplexing time the history our Planet Earth has ever seen. We are both knowingly and unknowingly reacting to this time, yet many of us do not understand how the Path of Consciousness affects our emotional stability. Not only do we feel there is more to fear these days, but we are also sensitive to planetary energies that are shifting and changing as we evolve. Mix the different levels of information that we receive from the different pockets of…

overwhelming sensation to feel happy with oneself, weighed down it’s hopes on this paper. Many College students face so many pressures in school, which include the need to fulfill financial responsibilities, make their parents proud and their own inner demons screaming at their imperfections. William Zinsser in his essay, “College Pressures”, demonstrates the economical, parental and internal pressures affecting college students…

Throughout the journey Gilgamesh embarks upon, he gradually changes by the characters he meets along the way. Gilgamesh is confronted with new emotions such as love, compassion, and belonging from Enkidu. They create a bond with their differences which enhanced their…

ways I can be successful and make meaningful contributions to my life as well as others. As the Fourteenth Dalia Lama (n.d.) says in Compassion and the Individual, “I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes…

up … [justifying the lack of purpose in] learning to do right when it’s troublesome to do right and ain’t no trouble to do wrong” (Twain 91). By concealing Jim’s location and identity, Huck continues to suffer from subconscious guilt, proving his inner strength through endurance. Huck’s defiance towards the Southern principles of slavery allows him to overlook the stereotypical and dehumanized portrayal of Jim. After resisting the temptation to follow society’s ideals of reporting Jim, Huck made…

Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Jung once stated that the most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. In Marc Forster's film, Stranger than Fiction (2006), Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) leads an extraordinarily mundane life as an IRS tax auditor. He “was a man of infinite numbers, endless calculations, and remarkably few words” (Forster). Every weekday for the past 12 years he has had the same exact routine, even down to the number of times he brushed his teeth. On a seemingly typical day, he…

We aren’t doing. We stand and watch events unfold around us while stating we could never change the actions that are unfolding. However, that is fear, not hope. Fear is what slows down the inner-workings of change and acceptance. Solnit is trying to break through this fear, to address the bad but accompany it with the good that will eventually come. She points out the good that we can’t see happening because media is widely pessimistic and…

Salinger demonstrates Holden’s inner conflicts about adult social expectations in a variety of ways: Jane Gallagher demonstrates Holden’s inner conflict with sexuality and sexual maturity, experiencing many overwhelming adult physical responses. Jane Gallagher is a young women whom Holden has had a personal connection with in his past. When Holden discovers Jane has gone on a date with his roommate, Holden becomes distraught by continuously worrying whether or not Jane has had sexual intercourse…