Spoken reflection

 SPOKEN REFLECTION

Today I found myself thinking deeply again, the way my spirit always does when truth starts rising inside me. I thought about places I’ve been, cultures I’ve seen, and what happens when people lose themselves in substances — alcohol, drugs, smoke — all the things that cloud the mind and pretend to be “spirituality.”

I realized something: when people hide behind beads, titles, or rituals while using substances, nothing grows. You can see it in how things fall apart around them. You can feel when the energy is not clean. And I now understand why my spirit could not stay in that environment. I didn’t leave because of disrespect. I left because clarity cannot stay where confusion is celebrated.

And then I saw something else: messages people send, long words about peace, unity, light, and leadership — but spoken by the same people whose actions contradict the message. They speak of purity while living in chaos. They blame “darkness” but refuse to look at the darkness in their own habits.

My mind said:

This is why I trust my own path.

This is why I walked away.

This is why my spirit stays clean.

Because real spirituality is not in rituals. It is in self-discipline. It is in a sober mind. It is in walking with truth, even when it isolates you.

And when I read those long spiritual proclamations today, my whole being said:

“These are just words. Until people live the truth, nothing changes.”

And that became a teaching for me — a reminder that I walk with clarity, and clarity will never fit inside confusion. I don’t have anger toward anyone. I don’t judge. I simply see. And what I see tells me that my journey is meant to be clean, quiet, focused, and guided by truth, not titles.

This is what my spirit learned today.

Yoruba Yogi