Favors & Insults

It is easier
To forget favors
Than to forget insults;
Life would be better served
If we would forget insults
And remember favors.
05.31.2015

Repetition & Monotony

When nature repeats and recycles itself
It does it without monotony;
When we repeat and recycle ourselves
We become monotonous.
05.30.2015

Inhumane & Ideology

Espousing an inhumane ideology
And thinking it worthy of devotion
Is responsible for historic tragedies.
05.29.2015

Goals & Life

To live the longest life
Is the goal of most of us;
To live the good life
Is the goal of some of us;
To live the best life
When the best is also the shortest
Is the goal of our heroes.
05.28.2015

Cleansing & Soul

To cleanse our bodies
We need soap;
To cleanse our minds
We need compassion;
To cleanse our spirits
We need art;
To cleanse our hearts
We need love;
To cleanse our souls
We need nature
For that is where God lives.
05.27.2015

Love & Bitterness

Without food
We become hungry;
Without drink
We become thirsty;
Without love
We become bitter.
05.26.2015

Passion & Excellence

To work with passion
Makes us excellent workers;
To work without passion
Makes us ordinary workers;
And not to work
Makes us lazy.
05.25.2015

Urges & Control

It is far easier
For our urges to control us
Than for us to control our urges;
Whenever possible
We should avoid the cues
That could trigger our urges.
05.24.2005

Forgetting & Forgiving

Forgetting
Is the purest kind
Of forgiving.
05.23.2015

Preoccupation & Death

Being preoccupied with death
Diminishes life
And being preoccupied with life
Diminishes death.
05.22.2015

Reading & Time

Reading can be a waste of time
If it neither entertains nor instructs.
05.21.2015

Remembering & Forgetting

Forgetting
Is as important
As remembering
Especially when we
Remember the good
And forget the bad.
05.20.2015

Love & Friendship

Love is sustained by friendship;
When friendship dies, love withers.
05.19.2015

Excess & Insufficiency

Bureaucracy is like food
Too little of it weakens us
The right amount, keeps us healthy
And too much, fills us with disease;
Achieving the golden mean
Is much more difficult
Than are excess or insufficiency.
05.18.2015

Primitiveness & Danger

The most dangerous human
Is the one who is primitive
But thinks he’s enlightened.
05.17.2015

Truth & Harm

To speak our truths
When they lead to good
Is good
But, to speak our truths
When truths lead to harm
Is bad;
Our truths, when damaging
Are unethical and cruel.
05.16.2015

Fun & Crulety

To make cruel fun of others
Is to make fun of their Maker.
05.15.2015

Argument & Understanding

Because arguments
Seldom change minds
To argue is to fail to see
The opposing point of view;
We would learn so much more
If we try to understand, instead.
05.14.2015

Ethical & Legal

To do the unethical
Because it is legal
Erodes our values
And diminishes us.
05.13.2015

Love & Dimentions

Love is the fourth dimension of life
After food, water, and shelter;
Without it, a meaningful life
Would not be possible.
05.12.2015

Modern & Time

Every one
Alive or dead
Was modern once.
05.11.2015

Ownership & Power

Ownership is our grandest illusion
We tend to confuse ownership with power
None of us really ever owns anything
Instead, we merely have power
Over what we think we own
Until the day comes
When we are rendered powerless.
05.10.2015

Details & Vistas

Allowing ourselves to become mired
In the mundane details of our lives
Blinds us to the grand vistas
Of the life around us.
05.09.2015

Age & Beauty

To uncover the beauty of age
We need to look behind the years
And re-visualize the youth from which
Old age has sprouted.
05.09.2015

MIstakes & Teachers

We learn the most
When we catch our mistakes
And take the time to correct them;
If we let our mistakes escape, untended
We will lose our very best teachers.
05.07.2015

Silence & Worship

Because the rarest element
On planet earth
Is silence;
We associate silence
With holiness and worship
And noise, with the mundane.
05.06.2015

Generalazations & Good

We must resist generalizations
Even though they come to us naturally;
There is always more good than bad
More construction than destruction
More peace than war and conflict
More simplicity than complexity
More virtue than corruption
And more love than hate
On our little planet.
05.05.2015

Time & Life

To have time to live
One must take time away
From what seems more significant
And apply it to what seems less significant.
05.04.2015

Love & Anger

All loves
Emanate from self love
All hates, from unconsolable self pain
And all angers, from uncontrollable feelings.
05.03.2015

Ethics & Morality

Ethics favors right over wrong
Regardless of numbers or justification;
Morality justifies its precepts
Based on the feelings of its majority.
05.02.2015

Peace & Passions

Without passions
Peace can become
Dangerously boring.
05.01.2015

Construction & Destruction

The primitive
Compete in destruction,
The enlightened, in construction.
04.30.2015