In the Eye of the Tiger · Spiritual Rebels

In the Eye of the Tiger

I’m listening to this song… and there’s something about it… this rhythm, this rise and fall, the way it carries you… sometimes I even pick up my guitar and just follow that groove, feeling how it moves through me without thinking too much about it

and as I listen, I notice how I start to go with it… not just with the music, but with something deeper in me

there’s this boxer… this part of me that doesn’t want to give up… and it takes me to places where it hurts

to that moment where I left my family… and for a long time I couldn’t forgive myself for it

those moments come back like a bell striking… clear… unavoidable… and then there’s this strange movement… like returning… like something pulling me back into myself

and I stand there… looking the tiger in the eyes… even when it bares its teeth

and I don’t give up

I don’t give in to the temptations, to the thoughts that try to pull me away

I stay

even when the wind is strong

and again and again I notice this… this look… this raw presence… like the eye of the tiger itself

something in me becomes very clear in those moments

and I keep going

I rise… slowly… not perfectly… but steadily

I live my life… I try to help where I can… to give something back from what was given to me

and I find myself writing this book… bringing all these experiences into it… letting them flow into something that might reach someone else

all of this…