Speak your truth,
even when it seems no one listens.
Loving Wisdom rises
from matter, a living miracle.
In love are joy and sorrow entwined;
awareness of this is wisdom.
Without Loving Wisdom, the body
is a cramped prison; the mind, a solitary cell.
Music conveys emotion,
as a caress may reveal love.
Love flows from a place of deep strength;
it is a gentle conquest without possession.
By love, discordant elements
converge to share autonomy.
Life’s meaning is found in those deep
and durable bonds formed by the living.
Love brings forth the sacred impulse to create.
Love’s power shines through darkness
and drives us beyond fear to action.
Bestow love and it may return amplified.
Love is a longing beyond desire,
an ache deeper than pain.
Love heals wounds no medicine can touch.
Love is the living core of all virtue.
Even wisdom begins in love.
Without love, life is
a wretched, pointless nightmare.
Love’s mysterious power is sovereign;
ruling all, answering to none.
Do not exploit that which you love.
One who uses the heart as a weapon
is their own first casualty.
Affluence can hinder love
more surely than poverty.
Though love may pierce and wound you,
be fearless; as if hearts never break.
It is within your reach to be filled
with love’s austere power and become
a warm refuge against the cold.
It is in this way that you conquer.
It is one mystery of love
that by abandoning self-concern,
you may receive all for which you most hope.
In the eyes may be found love’s
silent, most eloquent confession.
Love and time alter all life.
Love is a gentle breeze, a warm summer rain,
a tide, a wildfire, a tornado, a force of nature,
churning like an ocean storm, irresistible
and sudden as lightning.
Love survives; despite the wrenching
of unwelcome change, beyond the haunting
brevity of dreams and memory, love awaits.
From lamentation you emerge; stunned,
hollow-eyed and are remade whole.
Love leaves its impression upon you; an eternal
pattern that binds one to another, each to all;
despite physical absence and beyond death.
In love is real courage found.
Love unites and completes the living.
Far more than a privately experienced emotion,
love is the power which binds all life.
What ground do you offer,
that love may take root?
It is by liberation from the confines of self,
that you come into your full glory.
This universe, of staggering complexity,
is encompassed by the vast simplicity of love.
When might fails, love yet finds victory.
Love remakes the world, one at a time.
You may learn much from those you love.
Do not allow the bonds of love
to fray from neglect.
Not swift, but most certain is love’s victory.
Loving Wisdom unites
the realms of passion and reason.
In silence, wisdom gestates.
Of all flesh, time makes a ruin
and from the wreckage, love rises anew.
Betrayal stings a warm
and open heart into cold closure.
Both austere and extravagant, is love.
Like all uncontrollable power, love is dangerous.
It can leave scars. Before healing, there is a place
within; torn, bleeding and unspeakably empty,
where something tender was removed by force
and memory only refreshes the wound.
Dare to love anyway.
Love ungiven is inert and barren;
only another thing hoarded until useless.
To raise a child in love; not even the creator
of worlds does a greater thing than this.
You can love more deeply
than wisdom may follow.
May no child remain hungry or unloved.
We are one family; not of perishable blood,
but of eternal spirit and shared purpose,
united by love.
No one can truly love anyone
they hold in contempt.
Loving Wisdom is the very hinge
upon which you open to embodied truth.
To witness the suffering of those you love
is more painful than to bear your own.
All which you truly love is imprinted
indelibly within you and beyond loss.
All which lives, desires love.
Loving Wisdom is the core virtue;
self-obsession is the primary impediment.
Not in fear, but for love you strive.
However immense the knowledge,
love precedes wisdom.
You find wisdom in those mundane tasks,
by which you serve love and life itself.
Those who best love birds do not build cages.
They plant trees.
What good is eternal life,
unless it is filled with love?
Love the question, embrace the mystery.
We are one eternal family in common cause.
Love calls forth such power,
that death itself is overcome.
Love reveals Us to ourselves.
You are here to find
what you love most and do it.
If Our Loving Wisdom does not
exceed Our power, We are not great.
Many weaponize false professions of love.
As a wild survivor of wind and rain,
you offer an irreplaceable contribution
to love’s enduring power.
A child unloved will turn hatred first in
upon themselves and then out onto the world.
Babies immersed in a mother’s love may never
remember her earliest gifts, yet carry forever
forward the benefits of her loving spirit.
Her tenderness has made of their new life
a gentle enchantment and laid a lifelong
foundation of embracing warmth.
Those bonds which endure beyond life
are forged and tempered by adversity shared.
Your sweetest dreams are not built upon thin air,
but are the echoes of half-remembered,
lovely things you have received already.
You lead forward the purposes of life
and rise in Loving Wisdom,
then turn back to consolidate your gains.
Step by step, you ascend.
You leave behind untroubled bliss; in willing
acceptance of danger and suffering; a sacrifice
freely chosen in Loving Wisdom.
Your presence here is proof of your courage.
There are creative principles,
which operate in eternal opposition
to the forces of entropy and decay.
You are here to stand as one; unafraid and
resolute. By the power of Loving Wisdom
to oppose the destroyer; truth and beauty
will not pass from this world.
Turn back upon that which pursues you.
Face your fear and defend what you love.
Confront your would-be destroyer.
Do not cower as sheep before wolves,
while a bully or tyrant has his way.
Become who you truly are.
When it seems that you are unloved,
this world is dark and empty.
To love is to be vulnerable.
To dare vulnerability is to face fear.
To be resolute despite fear is courage.
May you know a love such that
for its sake, you would face any danger.
Truth often dwells in opposition
to the suspect judgment of this world.
Recall your mission
and why you have chosen this life.
Your purpose is found in the way
this world can be and is not yet.
All is won or lost within each single heart.
With food in abundance, many starve for joy.
May laws now come to reflect justice,
not merely the will of the powerful.
Obstacles fall beneath your collective stride.
You are equipped to overcome
and achieve, despite opposition.
One moment of truth at a time,
you rise to your destiny fulfilled.
We recall the sharing of difficult times with
unexpected fondness; for the bitter fades,
while the sweet is retained with
a wrenchingly tender intensity.
Much is gained by diligent passion.
Earn victory in that battle where no sword avails.
Simply withstand all
for which there can be no preparation.
Become what you most admire.
You are the living bridge
between history and potential,
between destiny and destruction.
In undulant synchrony, entangled particles
together dance across the gulf, which appears
to separate, but does not.
Together, We sweeten the music of this world.
Beneath the snow, trees dream of spring.
Take care what seeds you plant;
for once planted they will grow.
Insight perceives the deep unity
beneath the surface of all things.
The spirit within flesh is the pearl in the oyster;
as by subtle layerings, grit becomes treasure.
No one can make another love them.
Opposites reconcile, reunite and resolve
in an intimacy beyond flesh.
Contrast is not discord.
Embrace inevitable uncertainty.
The inevitability of bodily death
is not fearful, it is motivating.
Do not waste this brief opportunity.
Answers alter and drift; the questions remain.
The best gifts are inspired, not occasioned.
Upon meeting the ocean,
each raindrop returns to unity.
It is within your reach to become
extraordinary in a single lifetime.
The best of humanity overcomes the worst.
Upon this, the future depends.
You are on the threshold of those changes
which transform and define you.
At their own risk,
do they think to subdue this world
as though a defeated enemy.
The belief that this world
is ugly and evil helps make it so.
Their desire to wield power
at any cost is an ancient peril.
It is easier to destroy than preserve;
to take a life than to save it.
This world is a materialization
of collective values.
The artist’s hand and spirit
are found throughout the work.
Creation is not an event in the remote past,
but an ongoing process in which you participate.
You are called not to ease and comfort,
but to worthy struggle.
Upon a restless ocean, thoughts churn;
while beneath, deep peace abides.
To damage nature is to sabotage the prospects
of your children. Do not bequeath to them
a legacy destroyed. Revere this, your only world.
The world is a playground,
a classroom, and your place of struggle.
Hopeless tragedy is not
to be the truth of your world.
This world is the living forge of your destiny;
a place of sorrow and longing, choice and chance
entwined and your venue of victory.
You choose to make this place
a garden or a graveyard.
Offer reverent thanks for
those living things you consume.
Wander deep in a pathless wood and receive the
peaceful welcome of primordial homecoming.
When they have sacrificed all, exploited the earth
and amassed wealth beyond use, to what new and
untainted place will they next go as a
careless, greedy plague?
You are born into a world not of your making
and daily recreate a particle of it
in your own image.
Vengeance makes all wretched.
All to be learned in this world
cannot be gained in a single pass.
Seek truth and be at peace
with the as yet unknown.
Assumptions and expectations
are prison walls of the mind.
If boredom approaches, recall transience.
Those who never journey may be lost already.
Is the river destroyed
upon reaching the ocean, or fulfilled?
Victories may derive from predictive empathy
for the adversary.
Beware those who would make
their personal opinion, universal law.
Places of deep wisdom within you observe,
remember and await opportunities.
By selfish folly, your world is jeopardized.
Challenge and dismiss superstition,
the true enemy of spiritual advance.
Fear of punishment may discourage the wrong,
but cannot inspire the right.
Upon its stable depth the tower’s height relies.
Ignorance alone may turn
a fertile garden into a wasteland.
To be confident, first earn competence.
Do not pretend to know.
With only the selfish and ignorant, the cruel and
cowardly for allies, evil cannot long rule.
Courage and kindness together,
may turn aside rage and wither hatred.
From thoughtless to mindful, you rise.
What you know is forever altered
by one undeniable experience.
Vast is the difference between
being tolerated and being appreciated.
True courage rises within those who act
on behalf of others, instead of themselves alone.
Unnatural celibacy may lead to perversion.
Surrounded by beauty, many seek a thorn.
Those consumed with buying and selling,
overlook the priceless.
Not by years does the heart grow old.
It can happen in a moment.
The morning dew makes the spider’s trap,
a web of jewels.
May you become worthy stewards of this world,
before presuming to move beyond it.
They seek to determine the verdict of history
and impose their will upon the future,
yet cannot fully comprehend
even this single moment.
In the courage of one is found the hope of many.
Let such beauty shine in your recollection
that darkness can find no advance.
Those that follow orders without question,
may do evil without limit.
It is within your power
to be the miracle another most needs.
The loss of a single brush-stroke
diminishes the true masterpiece.
Civilizations rise and fall;
ebb and flow like the tides,
yet your human purpose remains.
Your true task
is a collective endeavor beyond self,
crucial to the future of all humanity.
Power unrealized, awaits opportunity.
Consider the worthy purposes
you may act in concert to achieve.
When the way becomes familiar,
the map is forgotten.
Strive with every nerve and fiber you have,
with your lifeblood and last breath.
Caring for a child begins well before conception.
Children, revere your parents.
Parents, be worthy of their reverence.
Even those who become great begin helplessly.
Beauty may be recognized
in the most distressing guises.
Creation is more than how you are here, it is why.
Except that oppression is perpetual,
how may there be order without balance;
peace without justice?
This world is achingly beautiful.
Even in sorrow, heartrending beauty can be found.
You contain a multitude, together engaged
in the more or less unified endeavor
of being you.
Remember all you really are.
The flesh is no enemy but a precious tool
of spirit’s material becoming.
Laws inevitably propagate until
even a deep breath is suspect and
none are wholly clean.
Past failures, when learned from,
prepare today’s success and tomorrow’s victory.
We are of one eternal family, deeper than blood.
Greed kills more children than drought.
The selfish strive for abusive primacy.
Those who build cages will next
find someone to trap within them.
There is no true justice without mercy.
A lovely mask may conceal deep rot.
You live by choices;
what you do, seek, offer and become.
There is unrecognized
beauty within the mundane.
That which most enriches is beyond purchase.
In simplicity is elegance beyond adornment.
To hoard a vast surplus when there
is a desperate need, is regrettable.
In this moment may be found a taste of eternity.
Many fail to treasure what is too easily received.
The sun requires no faith to rise.
Recall all that you are and why you are here.
The workings of eternity rise
to awareness and you awaken.
The uncaring bear the pain
of others with remarkable courage.
Within the realms of time and matter,
you unfurl to enrich eternity.
Beauty is experienced without proof.
You are not brief flesh passing into oblivion,
but part of the eternal at variable play.
You cannot awaken those pretending to sleep.
Those who purposely
misunderstand are unreachable.
In the contemplation of beauty
is found both pleasure and learning.
At a crucial moment,
a kind word alone may save a life.
Sweeten the lives of scoundrels no longer.
Beyond the distortions of time
and memory dwells the truth of things.
It is pointless to explain further
than understanding may follow.
The child learns speech more quickly
than the adult learns silence.
Maps are not the ground
they describe, nor are words reality.
You already perceive that which
instruments cannot measure.
There is far more proceeding here
than you can yet perceive, much less explain.
Attend the present for the sake of the future.
When your cause is just;
though in chains, dignity is yours.
This world is filled with meaning,
in rich and varied themes.
Intense competition may result
in ruthless, destructive behaviors,
which betray and undermine progress.
True wealth is beyond the reach of money.
Money can buy tasty food, fine goods,
and false friends; a house, but not a home.
You remember the past, anticipate the future;
but live only in this moment.
Prosperity and adversity
both test and reveal character.
In the endless now between two eternities,
this moment forever unfolds.
No moment is trivial.
You hold mortality in one hand,
eternity in the other.
For life to be treasured,
there must be passion and purpose,
not merely a fear of death.
Seek that worth finding.
In a crucial moment,
preparation and opportunity meet.
The vanguard is unprecedented.
The power of focused intent
aligns the discordant to a manifestation.
You know their tree by its fruit,
as your world runs red with innocent blood.
That upon which you dwell, you empower
to become. First contemplate the worthy
and then act.
To achieve anything new,
you must first relinquish certainty.
Beyond the veil, you see into the living truth,
of which you are a part.
The forms which life assumes, change
unceasingly. The essence abides.
Catharsis serves by evoking sympathy
and purging pain at a safe distance.
There is truth to be found
in freedom, none in tyranny.
Mindless obedience does no one honor.
Nothing worthy is built upon injustice.
You need not be perfect to dwell in light.
Those who know something can learn more;
while those who know everything
are unreachable.
In binding yourself to that which
cannot remain, you suffer from inevitable change.
Drop by drop, it falls upon the heart;
until beyond despair, wisdom rises.
The most wonderful things
may happen just as all seems lost.
Bad friends destroy more than enemies.
Do not squander your own
uniqueness in imitation.
Live with extraordinary creativity,
for you are unique beyond replication.
You sacrifice what you are,
for what you would become.
Through you, creation’s power
flows like a river beyond time.
Life itself is your medium of artistic expression.
Memories of the past outlive the present.
One moment at a time, you transform
into what you are becoming.
You can more easily will yourself to forever
stop breathing than cease to create.
Make your life a unique expression
of creative power, not a compliant heap.
Of what valor are the truly free capable!
No matter how you live, you will
never be untouched by disapproval.
To accomplish anything substantial,
you must remain undeterred by criticism.
Much of great value is lost in fear of opinion.
Even the sharpest knife is not all edge.
Those who will be great are first good.
Opportunities often appear as obstacles.
Kept or broken, promises bear a price.
Once crossed, the bridge is forgotten.
Do no harm and this world
is better for your presence.
Even stars pass away to serve the purposes
of life; and to the stars, life returns.
Fire need not hate you to burn.
Beware those who cannot be satisfied.
To one born blind and then sees;
all is an indescribable wonder.
To obey malignant authority
is to be an accomplice.
The weak are cruel, the insecure are boastful.
Refrain from doing harm.
Enact the needful by compassionate means.
Every advance is first greeted by ridicule.
You may long regret
the needful thing left undone.
Swim hard, but the tide
still takes you where it will.
In the noonday sun,
even candle flames cast shadows.
By both nurturing and winnowing, you thrive.
You are here to learn
the power beyond self-concern.
Through deep forest leaves,
the breeze plays an ancient tune.
Not with a curse do you
dispel the darkness, but with light.
You are born of the jeweled wonder of stars.
Through you, they see themselves beautiful.
Upon you, their light for a moment falls.
Into the heart of things you gaze
and are transfixed.
You fall to dust only to return
better than before; seer and seen as one.
Build your future upon a worthy foundation.
Courage rises from knowing
the worth of your purpose.
You suffer wounds
that have yet to heal, but shall.
Ingratitude is a poor imitation
of independence.
When liars hold sway in the place
intended for justice; the most guilty
have the least to fear.
Only the innocent are at risk.
It is a poor potter who blames the clay.
You grow into your liberty.
Let those who would be wolves, beware.
Those sheep you presume to stalk,
may in fact be sleeping lions.
By vain and wasteful display
abundance is squandered.
That which cannot be perceived
is the source of all perception.
Within the infinite and eternal,
you create ever-changing beauty.
Progress comes from bold re-imagining,
not rigid adherence to the past.
Rather than be conformed to this world
as it is, remake it in the worthy image
of your highest aspirations.
Intuition is related to reason,
but is not limited thereby.
As the element common to all your experience,
knowing oneself begins understanding.
Experience cannot be
fully conveyed by writing or speech.
There is so much more to you than you yet know.
You rise above those things
which exist only in the world.
Beneath the reach of reason,
dwell fears that must be confronted.
The world as it is results
from your collective virtue.
Do not sit passive as a power-mad
few impoverish and enslave many.
By intimate encounters, you are transfigured.
Perceive the unseen, enveiled behind phenomena.
Be not be overcome
by a darkness of your own making.
You need not lose yourself to find purpose.
Errors are essential to learning and progress.
Life here is an ordeal and opportunity,
a sojourn and seeking.
Not life, but despair, is futile.
A yearning gnaws within,
for that which is beyond explanation.
Nascent within you is an abundance
of those very qualities you most wish to possess.
Most beautiful are those, whose deep
treasure this world does not yet recognize.
One may be unfaithful not only
through infidelity, but by unwarranted suspicion.
Consciousness is that miracle,
by which you perceive all the rest.
Truth is revealed by experience,
imagination, and reason in harmony.
No more is humanity to be determined
by blind power, but by insight unleashed.
Within you are entire worlds waiting to be born.
In focus and harmony joined,
you become strong.
You are capable of wonders well beyond
what you suspect of yourself.
Lacking social justice, the corrupt
and privileged few thrive at the
expense of the oppressed and
exploited many. It is not the victim
who is most dehumanized by this.
Unattended by wisdom, prosperity is arrogant.
Better to violate the laws of men,
than one's own conscience.
A better world is not a gift.
It is won by determined struggle.
So long as there are peaceful means
to achieve justice, use them.
What hellish things have been done
in the name of heaven.
Without justice, one can conquer,
but not triumph.
Even within her womb, the child
cannot prove the existence of the mother.
She who is oppressed, gains wisdom
denied to her oppressor.
In this brief span, how is there boredom?
By your own doing alone, may you
be darkened or fragmented;
for though you may surrender,
you cannot be conquered.
All is fulfilled by creative participation,
not passive obedience.
Unable to explain even itself, many
a miraculous mind will insist that there
are no miracles in all the world.
You choose who you are
and what you choose reveals you.
Every great truth begins as blasphemy.
Those that sleep do not see the dawn.
That which is constant is not arbitrary.
The mote is washed away by tears.
Women have been oppressed
longer than any race.
From that which remains unseen,
arrives all you observe.
Water does invisibly rise, that it falls equally
and to the sea, returns.
Certitude is no substitute for knowledge.
Satisfaction is not increased
by volume of consumption.
Cherish the sun, yet sing and dance in the rain.
Is the indelible mark of the parent
not found within the child?
Living abundantly is creative, not consumptive.
Wealth and prosperity are not identical.
By this gritty world, you are smoothed.
Being unwilling to follow
does not make you a leader.
Honesty is far more than not stealing.
Though you win the war,
what results may not be peace.
It is no sign of health
to be well adjusted to a sick world.
Do not grow old in vain.
A single kiss may last a lifetime.
The autumn tree itself cannot
say which is the next leaf to fall.
All are born more alike than different.
Evil thrives only when unopposed.
You learn before knowing just how.
In the most private realms of an individual's life,
no one else can properly have any vote.
The most ignorant are the loudest.
On the edge of disaster, is found opportunity.
Though what you have perishes,
what you are continues.
From brief life you resume eternity.
Discover your true purpose
and with your whole heart, serve it.
The spirit pervades and exalts matter.
One cannot both search and cling.
Perversity makes some reflexively
aim to thwart the desires of others.
Be unmindful of acclaim.
Dismiss the need to have all the answers.
The quality of your experience
is related to your own intention.
By intolerant zeal is much harm done.
Families are made, not born.
Though death is not final, it produces
an intense sense of risk, despite which
you still choose the right over the safe
and overcome.
Many mistake hollow piety for virtue.
Neither the wolf nor the shepherd
hate the sheep upon which they both feed.
The past has much to teach.
How may a person, a society
or a world thrive without memory?
The true path is not blind obedience
to authority, but enlightened self-interest.
Faith is an imaginary virtue,
predisposing to disaster.
None are so alone,
as those surrounded by the uncaring.
By despair, many are defeated without resistance.
An otherwise ordinary life is exalted by purpose.
Individual perspective is the aperture
through which an image is formed and focused.
A divine song lives within each;
that when sung, opens heaven wide.
No one rises to success alone.
The return to life is miraculous and universal.
That which is commonplace today
was once deemed impossible; this pattern continues.
You are not obliged to respect willful ignorance,
meet hatred on equal terms,
or negotiate with a disease.
You do not yet know
all of which you are capable.
Truth is not subject to ownership.
Reality is unmoved by opinions.
Begin with a single perfect breath.
A single perfect day is a goal worthy of a lifetime.
To perform even a mundane task
with excellence is admirable.
You are not here to be like anyone else.
The wise do not grieve over a change of garment.
A smile is not wasted, even upon the blind.
Not at war, nor even
in conflict are body and spirit.
Flesh is the stair upon which you tread to rise.
The tumult is overcome by tranquility.
If in life you were to fully recall
the deep peace denied to the flesh,
you would fear only life’s continuation.
Though clearly perceived by the heart,
the essential is often invisible to the eye.
Lacking this vital insight leaves one most blind.
This world remains eager
to crush the most delicate.
Suffering falls away into
the darkness you leave behind.
The meek invite mistreatment and embolden
their abusers to view all as prey.
Lacking experience, they settle for doctrine
and worship their own imaginings.
The beauty of truth is both intricate and simple,
as uplifting as it is profound.
Those who deceive or suppress
lack the power to forever restrain truth.
Those who intend destruction fall alone
into the pit they prepared for others.
That this moment is not forever,
makes it precious, not meaningless.
Eternity includes now.
No one can be relieved
of delusion against their will.
A journey may be a crossing, a search or a flight.
You begin not only transient, but helpless also.
You need not have all the answers to know peace.
Be here now and content.
You do not find the truth, you recognize it.
Words are helpless to fully relate even
the plunge and wheel of a single bird in flight.
You are each unique.
This is the least of your many similarities.
None may be coerced to love
or threatened toward virtue.
The noise of a mind in chaos
can drown out perception itself.
When thirsty, drink; don't drown.
It is not about perfection,
but more deeply experiencing what is.
Paradox and ambiguity
live near the heart of existence.
The locks are removed, but the chains
do not fall away, for you grip them
tightly in your own hands.
So long as you cling, you remain bound.
Outside, explore the farthest reaches;
inside, ponder the labyrinth.
The wounds of the past
can be impediment or impetus.
Balance is not static, but a dynamic interplay
creating equilibrium.
Make peace with reality.
The extraordinary is found every day.
Join discipline to spontaneity;
planning with improvisation.
In this moment, be at peace.
Until this is accomplished,
of what value is eternity?
Who shall dodge the rain
that falls equally upon all?
Step by step, you reach the stars or extinction.
The just defender is often empowered
to defeat overwhelming aggression.
By the nobility of your struggle, you are defined.
What are you allowing yourself to become?
You enfold the mysteries
of both past and future, focused to an instant.
None are so suspicious as the untrustworthy.
When focused, light penetrates deeply.
Ask the trans-formative question;
for it is here, that wisdom begins.
Hold always this home-world in reverence;
for no matter the reach of your exploring,
there is only one.
Risk attends every first time.
Do not be held hostage by opinion.
Discouraging free inquiry and open discourse
is the prelude to tyranny of the mind.
How may there be progress
without embracing change?
You now begin to save your better world.
You are a living, free agent of needful change.
Habit and fear impede essential advancement.
Even the immobile
are criticized for what they do.
Risk discomfort and release truth into the world.
The desire to be appreciated is inherent.
Only as you follow your worthy path
beyond concern for comfort, reward
or reputation, may you achieve much.
A simple thing of pure beauty
confounds the world.
Those incapable of virtuous
self-mastery seek control of others.
Fear produces a destructive reaction
to inevitable change.
For lack of a true vision, many suffer.
Without your consent, this world
can only dirty you on the outside.
The darkest deeds are often
done in the name of light.
Not all aspire to fame.
Consider the vast difference
between luxury and comfort.
Being fallible, you cannot rightly dictate
the life and thoughts of others.
Hate is a miserable burden.
First within and then aloud,
speak that truth which sets you free.
Answers surround you, to questions
you do not yet know enough to ask.
One with unsuspected courage will seize
the moment and change the world.
Do not dismiss the evidence
of the senses and the verdict of reason.
What do you most hope for in your world?
Recall your elevated purpose and get to it.
Without unbreakable loyalty
to a worthy purpose, nothing is possible.
Those who would oppose worthy progress
are on the wrong side of history
and swim against the tide.
Wildflowers perish all unknown from a world
in desperate need of their brief splendor
and subtle fragrance.
Many overlook the fragile magic
of a single raindrop, becoming a jewel
held in a petaled embrace.
The song of birds may reveal
much to one of understanding.
Better bread and water
in joy than to feast in sorrow.
Better alone than unwelcome.
Do not mistake consensus for truth.
As you slumber, tyranny trickles down.
Chance and causality collaborate.
The heart is a vault, withholding
its contents from force, while gladly
opening to the knowing touch.
That the fragile and innocent
among you are those most endangered
is the continuing shame of this world.
It is the unprecedented occurrence
that conveys greatest risk and opportunity.
If all were predestined,
existence itself would be pointless.
The influence of random factors
is powerful and unpredictable.
To listen deeply is to hear beneath words.
Interference in complex interactions
may produce unforeseen consequences.
In the soothing of another's grief
is your own cure often found.
By the rod a child is spoiled
beneath the flesh; taught violence
and inclined to respond in kind.
Confess not merely your wrongs,
but the inner workings of your heart
to another and find comfort
in your shared humanity.
Nearly everyone can teach you
something you need to learn.
Just as the light accompanies you,
darkness also lurks nearby.
Authority not fully subject
to its own laws is tyranny.
One who is not too certain
may learn many things.
The seeking of beauty goes well beyond
mere gratification; it is a defining attribute
of humanity.
What you are and may become,
results from the maelstrom of instability
within you, ceaselessly adapting to every challenge.
You strive again and weave
something better to rise from the ashes.
When there is pain, remember:
it is only real-time change
proceeding at eye level.
The whole is manifested in each part.
Seek meaningful answers to the
inherent mysteries of beginning and end.
Travel unfettered on
the path of your own choosing.
It is your privilege to seek truth
without limitation, pursue understanding
without hindrance and progress
toward your chosen destiny.
Worthy goals do not demand
the abandonment of reason.
Progress and ascend by relentless
personal effort and experience.
Pleasures of the spirit
exceed all those of flesh.
In the storm’s core is peace.
Join your strength as one;
by focused intent, you prevail.
In the temple defiled and destroyed,
is every broken home.
They deny you choice and call it protection.
As much is revealed in the question
as by the answer, perhaps more.
The creative imperative will find release.
Seeking something for nothing finds misery.
From the death of stars, rose life.
The most telling truth is impervious to language.
What good is a body freed
to one of a captive mind?
As they debate scripture,
children perish at their pious feet.
Even stones wear away beneath
the relentless caress of living water.
When unable to refute the message,
they will attack the messenger.
They kill animals for fun, each other for profit,
poison land, sea and air, level the forests,
enslave the helpless, deceive the trusting
and oppress the gentle.
When you do not consume the
foreshortened lives of others,
you are at one with all that lives and grows.
That which you preserve lends its spark
and essence to you, together with
what once scattered in fear.
A small child may accomplish with ease,
a thing that remains lifelong beyond most.
That which is sought with diligence
is surely found; and along the path of this journey,
many more precious things, though unsought,
rise to flourish within the seeker.
Immersed, the fish does not recognize
the water in which it lives and moves.
To fully experience or appreciate
anything, requires a time of separation.
In wisdom, you choose to relinquish
accustomed unity for a moment and
experience the trials of mortal life
to a worthy purpose.
You are not made unique
only to surrender to the common way.
The freshness of pure air breathed deeply,
charges your blood; as through you,
life now flows.
Comfort the orphan, assist the widow,
heal the afflicted, guide the lost,
lift the downtrodden, ease suffering,
mind the forgotten, encourage those
who falter, feed the hungry, accept the
abandoned, protect the gentle and
make whole, those who are broken.
Confront and defeat inhumanity.
By conception, a new thought, a new life rises.
Invasion is quickly opposed,
but slow corruption destroys without a battle.
So bright is she that in her passing,
flowers bloom and turn to follow.
Each new blossom, which rises in turn
to brief beauty, cannot know the source
of their root’s repast. Sweeter was she
than all the honey, which from her is made.
Loving secrets are nourished
there in the silence beneath the rose.
Discover that to which you are called
and fulfill a destiny of such deep
purpose, as defies words.
Unbegun, the struggle is always lost.
There are moments of such tragic
beauty, that through tears; you are
blessed to know an exquisite, tender
ache and counterpart of joy.
Patience is not cultivated indifference,
nor resignation, nor mere waiting;
it is not relenting, nor discouragement
unexpressed. Patience is a confident
expectation of the inevitable, coming to
pass without anxiety. Though patience
occurs within, it reveals vital qualities
which spread far beyond the self.
All things possess a depth, unguessed at.
The humblest thing, fully known,
suggests and foretells the greatest.
You do not yet fully perceive
even the simplest matter.
You now confront inexorable change,
in contrast to the eternity of your home.
Finally, you come to long for rest
and soon are released homeward
to your reunion. In repose, you again
revel in glories unavailable to the flesh;
vast freedoms unbounded and timeless.
Every wish fulfilled, you turn back
to your nursery world and look again.
You relive your joyful triumphs of
courage over fear, adversities overcome
and the wonder of discovery.
You recognize yourselves forever ennobled
by the strivings of flesh long gone, recalling anew
what it is to hold loved ones for precious moments
in mortal arms and how brevity itself rises
to embrace eternity.
Thus renewed, you once more consent
to enter the maelstrom of flesh,
despite every uncertainty.
Each moment of truth holds both
a test and a promise. In an instant,
such a change begins that life is
never the same. That which slumbered
in darkness, is recalled to new life
and in that moment, you become more than you were.
One small kindness may be amplified
across time and distance to become
selfless courage years later and miles away.
That you are thinking beings,
productive by your own effort and
willingly suffer for the sake of your
children, is neither punishment nor a
curse; rather, these are among the
blessings which lead you forward.
Who can explain how art and music
touch and raise the spirit? There is
a mysterious power at work that
resonates within. Beauty can break
or mend the willing heart.
The visible regresses beyond the limits
of direct observation to the invisible;
and though you see ever further and deeper,
you will not glimpse the first cause,
the final purpose, nor the reason why.
They declare their beliefs to be exempt
from criticism and express their offense
with violent intolerance.
By form and color, number and note;
light and music pierce. From you, emerge
expressions of deepest feeling and the
perceptive faculties to enjoy. Proclaim aloud
both music and meaning; for they flow through
to cleanse, strengthen and relieve suffering.
From that music, a graceful dance is inspired.
The utterance of song and the expression of
dance initiate an original, self-unfolding
pattern from out of formless chaos.
Music and meaning unite heart and mind
as one, to convey both truth and beauty.
The spiritual and the carnal are not at
war but in deepest partnership.
Apply compassionate reason.
You have it within you to prevail.
However, this is not foreordained,
nor is doom predestined.
You yourselves decide.
A wonder it is to raise from the fleeting,
that which enhances eternity.
You sway to a song remembered and
drawing free of these accustomed moorings,
are again released to wander at ease beyond flesh.
Within the nest, the egg hatches.
The hungry baby is fed and grows.
But to fulfill its destiny, that young bird
must leave behind its familiar place of
comfort, security and the only life it has
ever known; to spread those wings,
useless in the nest and risk falling
to earn the sky.
The bird sings and soars, the dancer
leaps and you ascend, in graceful defiance
of that which holds you earthbound.
The child takes faltering steps toward
a parent’s hand and smiles.
You rise and struggle long,
seeking that gentle touch.
You descend to experience that which
you know already but have not yet lived.
Theory becomes practice and
knowledge rises to wisdom.
Not in vain, do you struggle.
What is the purpose of life? To create
and enjoy beauty; recognize and explore
truth; gain and practice virtue;
cause and share pleasure;
and foster joyful ascent.
The mirage of death is seen through;
fear departs and peace falls like gentle
rain upon a thirsty field.
Do you not feel within you that
powerful urge to accomplish some
wondrous thing, which serves to enrich
the lives of many? This pure yearning is
embedded within you, deep as blood.
The ocean primeval yet flows through your veins.
From the victim's ashes, the hero emerges.
The old skin is shed to a bold arising.
Knowing exceeds the power of speech to relate.
You dwell within a vessel of clay
to a lofty purpose; not to send children
to endless war for blood, profit or doctrine;
not to control and destroy nature, subdue
and despoil the earth; not to own or use anyone,
but to end self-obsession and join
in compassionate reverence for one another.
They deprive you of personal choice
and claim they know better.
Their profession of superior knowledge
and concern forcibly overrules you.
But know this: Somewhere, money
is quietly changing hands.
Wrongly are you told to hate the body,
be suspicious of the flesh; despise and
subdue the natural. Matter and spirit
are not at war, nor antagonists, but
complement one another in a purposeful
fusion to mutual benefit.
By the authentic impulse of the fully human being,
you cultivate the spirit; develop and share
a message of hope, join with the willing
and prepare your way forward.
Something skirts about at the edge
of awareness; teasing and tugging,
like a playful child, desiring attention.
You can almost remember it and sense
its importance; like a joyful dream
you wish to rejoin.
The powerful desire control above all else;
without regard to truth or harm.
They destroy by deception or violence,
even ones who feed and heal;
without a pang of conscience.
By such, the world is reduced
toward meaningless rubble.
Give the bully and tyrant reason to
reconsider their path. Not the peaceful
and innocent, but the vicious are to cower.
That all experience is subjective does
not diminish its reality. Consciousness
itself is subjective. Are you conscious?
How may you prove it?
Animals often display empathy beyond
many humans and affection without an
ulterior motive. To measure any life’s value
based on usefulness is the standard of a parasite.
Do not arrogantly dismiss the wisdom
of the non-human. They do not feel any less
because they have no words.
In a timeless moment, the membrane of flesh,
which seems ever to divide one from the rest;
falls away to reveal the overwhelming
and certain oneness of all life.
Mistaking stubborn for steadfast,
they reckon their intractability a virtue.
More than false, their beliefs are
a dangerous impediment to vital human progress.
By slow degrees, justice becomes tangled.
Adhering to a form emptied of substance;
it falls to a formal justification of its own misdeeds.
Believing themselves to be serving justice,
they instead become agents of inequity.
Selfish and narrow are those who
annihilated entire nations with joy,
only to indulge in self-pity when conquered.
They call themselves chosen or
exceptional, but are neither.
Impressions remain, of a profound experience
beyond description; remnants of a dream you
know is achingly lovely, but cannot be held in
daylight; fond memories of a kiss, for which
you still yearn. Your heart is thwarted by the
inability to retain the full power of this
elusive sweetness, though it lingers to tantalize.
In a universe of ceaseless change and
seething turmoil, there is that which
remains immutable and indivisible;
such stillness does not catch the eye, but is inexhaustible.
It is a greater miracle for the selfish to
awaken, than for the dead to rise.
Individually, you can make a difference.
As one, you can change everything.
Recognize the impermanence
of all manifestations.
All is in motion. Even the center revolves.
Knowledge once adequate, is no longer.
This truth; lament of the aged,
hope of the young, carries aloft
or away the willing and unwilling alike.
By effort alone, you can attain knowledge,
but not wisdom; learning, but not understanding;
pleasure, but not happiness; bed, but not sleep.
Sacrifice is not the spilling of innocent blood,
nor any destructive act. It is devotion.
It is the seeking of a good not solely your own;
dedication to a purpose beyond oneself.
It is doing the right thing, though it offers
no direct, personal advantage.
As you hold the potential for love and the
determination necessary to make it more
than a mere sensation, you are caring beings.
As you possess the capacity for wonder
and the intellect to seek its fulfillment,
you are thinking beings; and it is in this
rising fusion of feeling and thought,
that you become fully human beings.
Beware those who insist upon the literal
meaning of symbols. Their failure of intellect
and imagination is dangerous and destructive.
Their need to enforce a false certainty and
shore up ignorant fear, predisposes them to violence.
Even truth is neither universal nor permanent.
In courageous defiance of entropy and decay,
you enter time and flesh to create that new thing,
which rises for a moment under the sun.
It is to walk your own unique path that you are born.
It is the skilled builder, who is the most
honored by the monument.
At the shoreline, rock and wave pound
out their resolution, breaking one upon the other.
Look upon the familiar with new eyes,
as an infant seeing for the first time.
Simply observe.
Learn to do this with one another,
without preconceptions or expectations.
Collective experience is combined and multiplied.
The brief sorrow of separation is overwhelmed
by a joy greater than this world allows.
Even the meaning and purpose of suffering
is revealed as essential, having made you worthy of eternity.
Among the sources of pain which endure
is the regret of an opportunity to perform
some needful kindness, allowed to slip away undone.
Words are unable to fully convey experience;
far beyond their reach, is unspeakable truth.
Future and past are not yet and no
longer; for now, there is only now.
Can there be any doubt that the health
of your world determines your own?
The past will inform or poison your future.
Obedience to the wrong is not admirable.
Adversity is a turbulent catalyst for progress.
To the wise, adversity can be an ally.
You more than survive adversity,
you are ennobled in overcoming.
Many crucial human qualities will not
develop in ease and comfort alone.
Enemies are vital, as those who most
mean you harm, empower your rise.
Tenacious bonds are formed
in the sharing of adversity.
Weathering the storm deepens the root.
More are destroyed by prosperity
then are defeated by adversity.
In the collision of circumstance,
is found both danger and opportunity.
Well met, adversity is not arbitrary
cruelty, but a vital tool of attainment.
What is given freely can never be explained.
You divest yourselves of savagery
before the bridge is revealed.
The spirit has no use for piety.
Where proof is unavailable,
the dispute is unrevealing.
Do not seek reason to take offense.
Examine and weigh your beliefs,
not merely hold them.
Life looks different when held up to the light.
Through living you learn
the art of improvisation.
When confronted by adversity, you do
well to hope; for by courageous daring,
much is learned and accomplished.
Obstacles and adversities overcome,
empower and refine your character.
Seek opportunity to perform
an unexpected kindness.
Adversity is adept at plumming
the depth of each human spirit.
Death adds urgency to your true
purpose; as the end of one thing
and the continuation of all else.
Far more is required to heal than to wound.
Your courage to freely persevere,
must exceed their destructive will.
Your apparent fragility is an illusion.
You are eternal, unconquerable and far
from defenseless.
In the midst of a world in pain,
you take your stand.
Within the mundane inheres the sacred.
Incompleteness and dissonance
are inherent in the flesh.
Find joy despite imperfection.
Free yourself to stray from the herd.
Beyond pain, none are lost, but await reunion.
What you seek is worthy
of both effort and risk.
Between the world which was
and shall be, you unfold.
Distortions of light reveal unseen darkness.
Home isn't a place.
It is being with those you most love.
No road is false which leads you home.
You fall only to rise greater than before.
You shed a husk outworn to resume eternity.
All which appears to live, seems to die.
At death, you relinquish all you are not.
None depart from this world unscathed.
A fear of death is not the love of life.
As life is sacred, true insight evokes reverence.
Recall those precious things, which perish
unseen by a world half in darkness.
Before leaving this world, say and do
every loving thing which lives within you.
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