History & Power

I cycle; I am History;
I let the powerful rise
Then I break them down.
12.31.10

Listening & Ideas

Listen carefully
Listen to everyone
Listen to everything
Listen with your eyes
Listen with your nose
Listen with your mouth
Listen with your skin;
Your best ideas come
From keen observation.

Ethnicity & Freedom

To insist on an ethnic purity is but primitive atavism
Which, in time, will bring more intra-ethnic feuds
That split and splinter such atavisms
Until external ethnic infusions
Come in to the rescue;
Ethnic inbreeding
Stunts intellectual freedoms
And fosters decay.
12.29.10

Obligations & Freedoms

Only the recluse are free
Social and private obligations
Tax our personal freedoms.
12.28.10

Meekness & Hubris

Those particular and critical among us
Nurture their hubris at the expense peace;
Contentment comes from acceptance
Acceptance, from humility
Humility, from meekness
And meekness, from magnanimity of soul.
12.27.10

Meausers & Intellects

It takes our brains
Decades of emancipation
To be able to measure all things
With unbiased, circumspect intellects
Rather than with how everyone else thinks.
12.26.10

Cowards & Heroes

Our fears
Either make us heroes
Or they make us cowards.
12.25.10

Giving & Loving

Giving is an act of loving;
Generosity is a tree
Whose soil is love.
12.24.10

Portection & Feelings

Protecting feelings
At the expense of truth
Heralds the decline of ethics.
12.23.10

Pretense & Humiliation

People who dislike each other
Should avoid each other;
Pretense is self-humiliation.
12.22.10

Impressional & Liability

An impressionable mind
Is a permanent liability.
12.21.10

Unilateral & Mutual

Forcing a unilateral change
Is never as just or as durable
As agreeing on a mutual change;
Outside the bourns of compromise
The pernicious seeds of conflict lurk.
12.20.10

Creativity & Entertainment

A mind
That cannot
Entertain itself
Is a wasteland;
Creativity flourishes
With self-entertainment.
12.19.10

Beauty & Desire

Beauty
Is the eye of desire;
What cannot be desirable
Cannot be beautiful.
12.18.10

Christian & Good

The Church
That welcomes only good folks
Cannot be Christian;
Jesus hung out with thieves.
12.17.10

Supervision & Excellance

Those who need supervision
Are incapable of excellence.
12.16.10

Castles & Mind

The most fortified castles
Are still easier to conquer
Than castles of the mind.
12.15.10

Substance & Form

The less the substance
The more the emphasis on form.
12.14.10

Beauty & Details

To resist enthrallment by beauty
Take a closer look at the inside
And examine all the details.
12.13.10

Talking & Listening

Those who have a need to talk
Never notice the listener’s fatigue
And only stop gushing when they’re empty.
12.12.10

Good & Bad

It is easy to confuse
Popularity with quality
And easier still to confuse
The beautiful with the good
And the homely with the bad.
12.11.10

Pretense & Need

Pretense
Is bottomless
And is proportional
To eagerness and need.
12.10.10

Violence & Recidivism

Like drugs
Violence can be addicting;
For often, it is hard to remain violence free
And recidivism from peace to violence is common.
12.09.10

Betterment & Love

We can only better ourselves
Through love.
12.08.10

Anger & Self Defense

Every time I have allowed myself to hate
I have been wrong
And every time I have acted upon my anger
I have been wrong
But anger is best for teaching us self-defense;
Defending our selves against anger
Is the best exercise for self-control.
12.07.10

Noise & Qietude

Noise violates quietude
Like brutes violate women.
12.06.10

Cruelty & Inheritance

Cruelty is contagious and transmissible
And handed down from one generation to another;
When ever a person, a family, a community, or a nation
Sanctions cruelty by calling it justice or self-defense
Or other euphemisms such as right, or God’s will
It teaches the young that cruelty is necessary.
12.05.10

Work & Passion

Work is the child of passion;
Without passion, work is but orphaned labor
For passion is the primal force behind accomplishments.
12.04.10

Excess & Contrast

Wealth and Power
Always lead to excess;
Excess leads to contrast
And contrast, to violence.
12.03.10

MInds & Pollution

Blessed are the self-taught and self-entertaining
For their minds will be least polluted
By their environments.
12.02.10

Simple & Complex

Simplicity is for the simple;
For all emotions, actions, beliefs, and happenings
There are obvious reasons and there are hidden reasons;
There is not an only one reason for anything under the sun.
12.01.10