Creating My Framework: A Journey from Borrowed Beliefs to My Own Conscious Path
By Braddon Damien White
Today, Transient Harmony and its companion workbooks are released into the world.
As I arrive at this moment, I find myself reflecting not on the act of publishing a book, but on the much longer journey that led here — the journey of creating a framework I could finally call my own.
For most of my life, I lived within frameworks that were handed to me — inherited, conditioned, well-intentioned, and meaningful in their own contexts. They gave me language, stories, moral structures, and a spiritual vocabulary to begin asking questions. And for a long time, they were enough.
But over time, I began noticing a quiet gap.
I was borrowing meaning instead of discovering it.
I was repeating beliefs instead of defining them.
I was walking paths that shaped me, but were not consciously chosen by me.
The shift didn’t happen all at once. In many ways, it began years ago through small moments of journaling, reflection, questioning, and curiosity. But the real turning point came only in the last couple of years, as I began exploring my inner world with more intention — asking what I actually believed about consciousness, purpose, the soul, and the nature of being human.
At first, I did what many of us do: I borrowed.
From Stoicism.
From Taoism.
From Buddhism.
From Japanese aesthetics like mono no aware.
From Christianity and the spiritual language I grew up with.
From psychology, philosophy, and contemplative traditions.
I collected insights the way some people collect stones on a long walk — noticing which ones felt smooth in the hand, which ones resonated, which ones felt like they carried something true.
There is nothing wrong with borrowing.
In fact, it is an essential part of the process.
We all begin with the frameworks we inherit or stumble upon.
We learn from them.
We grow through them.
We are shaped by them.
But eventually — for some of us — a moment arrives when those borrowed frameworks no longer fully hold the shape of who we are becoming. A moment when the soul quietly whispers:
It’s time to build your own.
For me, that transition began last year. I was still exploring ideas, still gathering influences, still tracing the threads of what resonated from all the places I had learned. But I hadn’t yet named anything as mine.
Then, earlier this year, something shifted.
I began giving structure to the ideas forming within me.
I began defining my beliefs not as a blend of other teachings, but as reflections of my own lived experience.
I started shaping a system that could hold the complexity of how I understand consciousness, soul growth, and the human journey.
I didn’t even give the framework a name until May.
Transient Harmony.
A name for what I had been sensing but hadn’t yet articulated:
that we are eternal beings navigating a fleeting world — and that harmony is not a fixed destination, but an ever-evolving relationship between the eternal and the ephemeral.
From that point forward, the framework began taking on a life of its own.
I shaped its cosmology.
I clarified its metaphysics.
I articulated its ethical compass.
I formed the Four Pillars that now guide the system: Adaptive Alignment, Purposeful Discernment, Impermanence Appreciation, and Connective Resonance.
And as I wrote the chapters, created the work-along reflections, and designed the workbooks that invite others to build their own frameworks, something unexpected happened:
Defining my framework helped me grow into it.
Writing about my beliefs revealed where I still had more to learn.
Explaining my pillars showed me where I wasn’t yet embodying them.
Sharing my path with others helped refine the language — and also invited me to look inward at where I still had room to grow.
In many ways, Transient Harmony has been both the structure I built
and the structure that continues to build me.
And it will continue to grow.
Frameworks are not monuments.
They are living systems.
They refine.
They morph.
They stretch.
They evolve as we do.
Today, I share my framework openly — through the book, the companion workbooks, this website, and these reflections. But sharing it is not the end of the journey. It is simply another stage of it.
Writing this framework taught me as much as it may one day offer others.
This is the path I have taken:
A journey from inherited beliefs → through curiosity and exploration → into naming, shaping, and living a framework that feels wholly my own.
My hope is not that others adopt my framework as their own.
My hope is that by seeing mine, more people begin to ask:
What framework am I living by?
Does it belong to me?
Or is it time to create my own?
Because in the end, Transient Harmony is simply my example — my attempt to articulate the soul-discovery journey in a way that feels true to me.
Your framework will look different.
As it should.
And the world will be richer for it.