Introducing PENgrid™

My first writing advisor, John McManus, told me that my natural writing approach is an Op-Ed style article. At the time, I did not know what an Op-Ed was, but he assured me that it was provocative and inspiring. He pointed out how I ask questions and those questions invite the reader to uncover mysteries. A well-written Op-Ed is short in length, but deep-dives wells of thought where emotion bubbles and problems rise to the surface.

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I often think of Mark Twain's words,

I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one.

 

Indeed, these Op-Eds were preceded by a decade of books filled with wordy chapters about spiritual matters. Thus, No Hurt, Know Love is a succinct pentalogy where an alert awareness is in balance with the ease of readability.

 

Flipping through pages, you may ask:

Who do you think you are to say these things?

I am no one.

These Op-Eds are not written to convince or persuade, but to inform.

Awareness is not so much about accumulating shelves stuffed with knowledge, but a wholly complete understanding. Self-understanding is an ongoing movement.

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PENgrid is a philosophical tool that I devised to quickly unravel a fallacy or faulty reasoning.

 

As a visual person, I draw out big ideas on a wall-sized whiteboard in my study. After years of penning outlines and seeing patterns, I grew to realize most problems fall into a predictable grid. After all, I am the common denominator to my every experience.

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PENgrid is a compass.

PENgrid enables us to clearly see

our position, our environment, and our obstructions.

 

No Hurt, Know Love is a series of five books that shares PENgrid to enable widespread self-awareness. No one stands between you and actual truth. You are the instrument of your every perception. If there is hair on your glasses, the entire world appears to be a hairy place.

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Thereby, these books invite the editor to see the self as the self, to question conclusion, and to open the mind to all things possible.

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You, dear reader, are the editor.

 

You are in charge of the finale. You control how far you are willing to explore. You decide how you will feel about the discoveries. These pages illumine many paths to a single end. We all know the end of our story is death, but as an editor, you can alter the text of your life script.