Thoughts & Knowledge

Wonder about your own thoughts;
Wondering about the thoughts of others
Is a futile attempt at knowing the un-knowable.
04.01.10

Wisdom & Folly

Wisdom only comes to the wise
And folly comes mainly to fools;
Wisdom cannot be taught
Nor can folly be averted.
03.31.10

Intelligence & What's On The Mind

Intelligence is not in short supply;
The source of worry is not our minds
But what’s on our minds;
For it’s the contents of our minds
That make us what we are.
03.30.10

Self-Worth & Audiences

Pity that our self-worth
Has to come from without,
From the applause of audiences;
The most worthy have always been
Those whose worth comes from within.
03.29.10

War & Environment

Before earth explodes
And shatters us all to shreds
We should erase our borders
Replace our armies with global police
And use our war moneys to make war
On the violators of the environment.
03.28.10

Truth & Courage

Those who dare speak the truth
Offend so many
That now hardly any
Dare speak it.
03.27.10

Awareness & Life

Awareness is
The curse of humanity
The mother of myths
The maker of religions
And the harbinger of fears;
Were we like animals, unaware…
We would fill our minutes with little joys
Ignore precarious life and brutal mortality
And live for living without ever asking questions.
03.26.10

Ownership & Significance

How quickly we believe
That everything we own
And wherever we are reared
And whatever countries we inhabit
Belong to little us;
We forget that everything’s on loan
That nothing in this unimaginable universe
Can ever belong to anyone
And that nothing on our insignificant planet
Can ever attain great cosmic significance.
03.25.10

Teaching & Fear

Teaching fear is ruthless
Teaching hell is heinous
Teaching fear of God is sinful
Teaching fear of Death is cruel
Teaching love of God and peace of Death
As the natural extensions of life into the future
Is the best means to live in harmony with nature.
03.24.10

Motion & Life

Move without reason
Be active out of season
Ask not for an excuse to fly
All you need to know is that time is flowing fast
And you either flap your wings or die.
03.23.10

Hunger & Satiation

Hunger empowers our drives
Until it is satiated.
03.22.10

Freedom & Price

Freedom is never free
Its price is high
And grows even higher
The longer it lasts.
03.21.10

Youth & Knowing

When we interact with the youth
We know that they will change their minds with time
And they believe that we cannot possibly know what we know.
03.20.10

Words & Substance

The more the words the less the substance;
Verbosity dilutes the essence.
03.19.10

Effort & Eagerness

Effort is reward dependent
And eagerness, expectation dependent;
Those who expand great efforts are the well rewarded
And those who evince great eagerness have great expectations.
03.18.10

Mishaps & Thrills

Make room everyday
For mistakes and mishaps;
If they happen, you’ll be prepared
If they do not, you will be thrilled.
03.17.10

Loyalty & Blindness

Loyalty is often blind;
Those loyal to a cause
Don’t often change their minds
Even when the evidence
Is all against them.
03.16.10

LIfe & Earth

If we were given the choices
To remain in earth, unborn
Or to be born and live for a while
We would all choose life.
Those who choose life
Have nothing to loose
Because after a while
They all will go back home.
Those who chose earth
Have everything to loose
Because they may never get another chance
To learn what life is all about.
03.15.10

Pretense & Popularity

To be well liked
One must be what others want
And value their opinions
Above one’s own
Making it impossible
To be true to one’s self.
Social pretense is universal
Especially among popular people.
03.14.10

Most & Least

We’re most vulnerable when in need
Most virtuous when satiated
Most venal when the price is right
Least rational when emotional
Most rational when detached
Irrational when it comes to our own beliefs
Least aware of our own imperfections
Most critical of the imperfections of others
Most delusional with death and immortality
Bravest with words
Violent in anger
Most desperate for love.
03.13.10

Love & Wrong

Love is never an excuse
For doing the wrong thing.
03.12.10

Relationships & Need

Relationships start when we begin to need or to like each other
They prosper as long as we continue to need or like each other
They begin to die when we no longer need or like each other
And love, the innocent bystander
Glorifies our affections
As long as they last.
03.11.10

Intelligence & Leisure

Television has deprived humanity
Of the intelligent use of leisure.
03.10.10

Small Things & Joy

It’s vital to celebrate something, no matter how small, everyday
Small things can bring great joys to life.
03.09.10

Elegance & Comfort

There’s a tug of war between elegance and comfort
The younger favor elegance and the older, comfort.
03.08.10

Thinking & Levels

One-level thinking is done by all animals
Two-level thinking is done by most humans
Multi-level thinking is only done by a few thinkers.
3.7.10

Greatness & Insanity

It is unwise to inflate one’s own self worth;
The delusion of greatness is intoxicating
And drives one into hubristic insanity.
3.6.10

Morality & Dogma

Teaching morality
Entails un-teaching dogma
And teaching ethics instead
So as to empower our conscience
To make all of our moral decisions.
3.5.10

Surmise & Conclude

It’s best to surmise rather than conclude
Surmising entails flexibility whereas
Concluding reeks of finality.
3.4.10

Trust & Nature

Homo sapiens cannot be trusted;
They all betray Mother Nature.
3.3.10

Power & Endurence

If we know with our foresights that certain things are inevitable
We are fools to fight them for the moment’s heroic sake;
If we could see only a few hundred years ahead
We would lose our ugliness and grow meeker
With the realization that no power endures.
Shortsightedness is the plight of humanity.
3.2.10