Nature & Mind

Human nature is wired
To deny what it cannot imagine
And to ignore what it cannot foresee.
03.31.12

Humanity & Competition

Humanity competes in everything measurable
Power, wealth, beauty, size, speed, sports, arts
Wars, politics, quantities, achievements, etc.
Why is it that there has never been
A competition in peace?
03.30.12

Nations & Age

Nations don’t realize
That, like people, they will age
And will be abused by their own citizens.
03.29.12

Generalization & Mind

A generalizing mind
Is a closed mind.
03.28.12

Freedom & Dictatorship

Most of us who feel free
Have spent much of our lives
Circumventing little dictatorships.
03.27.12

Violence & Bandruptcy

Resorting to violence
When all other possible means
Have not been thoroughly exhausted
Denotes intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy.
03.26.12

Believing & Examining

Believing without examining
What one reads, hears, or sees
Defines one’s intellectual aptitude.
03.25.12

Summons & Summoner

When one is summoned to life or to death
One needs not forget to thank
The summoner.
03.24.12

Dying & Spirituality

Sudden, unexpected death
Robs one of the experience of dying
Which is the most spiritually enriching journey
Of one’s entire life.
03.23.12

Charlatans & Knowledge

Health-care charlatans are of two types:
Those who knowingly deceive their patients
And those who, with a sincere delusion of knowledge
Charm their patients with their deeply-held conviction
That their personal, non-evidence-based knowledge
Reaches far beyond evidence-based science.
03.22.12

Realization & Age

Aging is insidious
But the realization
That one is old
Is abrupt.
03.21.12

Violence & Peace

Violence is contagious
Like fire spreads and consumes
While peace is a distant, flickering light
Unreachable, unsustainable, and unnatural
Because all of nature is always in a state of war.
03.20.12

Inspiration & Passion

Inspiration
Begins with passion
And materializes in creative work.
03.19.12

Wealth & Worth

Note that, throughout our lives
Our wealth is measured by how much we own
But our worth is measured by how much we are loved.
03.18.12

Friends & Age

Old friends are the only ones
Willing to walk you through old age.
03.17.12

No & No

Those who never said no to life
Have no reason to say no to death.
03.16.12

Passion & Action

Passions are the prime movers of life
The primal forces that propel us
Into purposeful actions.
03.15.12

Solutions & Time

Most of our solutions
End up being temporary.
03.14.12

Whole & Part

Observe how
When we can no longer beautify the whole
We beautify a part and fixate on it instead.
03.13.12

Marriage & Love

People marry for two reasons
To have a family and avoid loneliness;
Marriage is proof that love is not enough.
03.12.12

Superstition & Identity

Most of us would not recognize ourselves
If we were to jettison our biases & superstitions
And pose, unencrypted, before our minds’ mirrors.
03.11.12

News & Improtance

Watching or listening to The News
Is a passive, time-wasting endeavor;
If something really important happens
No one can escape from hearing about it.
03.10.12

Joyful & Complex

To protect inner joy
One must insist on simplicity
For whatever is complex is seldom joyful
And whatever is joyful is seldom complex.
03.09.12

Good & Enlightenment

To blossom,
The kernel of good in us
Must be fertilized with enlightenment.
03.08.12

War & Peace

It is far easier to rally a nation to war
Than to lead it to peace.
03.07.12

War & Peace

It is far easier to rally a nation to war
Than to lead it to peace.
03.07.12

Truth & Telling

Telling personally negative truths
To the face of those dear to us
Or even to our acquaintances
Is a duty we shy away from
To everyone’s detriment.
03.06.12

Prediction & Reason

The tendency to predict
And to believe those predictions
Which support our wishful thinking
In spite of insufficient study or evidence
Is proof that human gullibility is instinctive
And insubordinate to rational forces.
03.05.12

Moderatoin & Excess

The human proclivity for excess
Whenever excess is possible
Makes true moderation
An unsung virtue.
03.04.12

Power & Wealth

Great power
Means great wealth;
When wealth declines
Power falters.
03.03.02

Humanity & Goodness

One would spend less life being surprised
If one would espouse the pragmatic premise
That humanity is aggressive, cruel, and corruptible
Than if one would espouse the romantic notion
That humanity is gentle, good, and noble.
03.02.12

Military & Nature

Military might
Is impotent against
Overpopulation, pollution
Climatic deterioration
Demographic shifts
Mutating microbes
Natural forces
And time.
03.01.12