Love & Misfortune

To love the good in others is easy
But that’s not what love is about;
To understand the bad in others
As the inevitable consequence
Of life’s pernicious coincidences
And to respond with compassion
To their dealt misfortunes
Is the epitome of humane love.
07.31.11

Death & Democracy

Of the many types of death
The most insidious and pernicious
Is the death by democracy.
07.30.11

Fear & Children

Fear of children is overwhelming
When parents become elderly
And children become covetous.
07.29.11

Courage & Fear

Courage is not about fighting others
It’s about fighting the fears within us.
07.28.11

Hunger & Virtue

Craving and virtue sit on opposite poles of the brain;
The more we crave, the less virtuous we become
The less we crave, the more virtuous we can be
For hunger is the archenemy of virtue
Satiety, its friend
And starvation, its deadliest poison.
07.27.11

External & Internal

On the highways
Two faces travel together
The faces of the cars and those of their drivers;
Throughout life
Two faces travel together
The faces we wear and the faces we are;
In both situations, the external faces
Have little to do with the internal ones.
07.26.11

Highways & Courtesy

On the highways
Courtesy is abandoned
And individual speeds are maintained
To the peril of other motorists.
07.25.11

Anger & Generalization

Anger
Is the shortest way
To nasty generalizations.
07.24.11

Peace & Caring

Peace comes when we can wear
A different stocking on each foot
And neither notice nor care.
07.23.11

Control & Irrationality

It’s easy to be in control
When one is calm & rational;
Most out-of-control actions
Are committed when we’re
Angry or temporarily irrational.
07.22.11

Projection & Influence

We are projectors;
The wider and farther
We socially project our lights
The more we shine and influence.
07.21.11

Action & Reaction

Every action
Is but a reaction;
Everything we feel and think
How we dress and behave
Everything we say or do
Are all but reactions
To the life we’re in.
07.20.10

Tiers & Intellect

The tiers of human intellect
Rise with their scrutiny of evidence;
Those who believe what they hear or read
Without taking time to investigate the evidence
Sit lower than those who investigate before believing;
And those who dare evolve beliefs based on newer evidence
Sit isolated in the highest realms and don’t cheer with the masses.
07.19.11

Truth & Feuds

Truth smirks
When factions feud.
07.18.11

Delusions & Reality

Delusional minds cannot know
Nor can they ever be shown
That they’re delusional;
The deeper the delusion
The fiercer it defies reality.
07.17.11

Reason and Irrationality

It is not possible to reason
With an irrational mind;
Irrational minds use good logic
To justify their irrationality
And reject good reason
Which exposes their irrationality.
07.16.11

Forces & Us

The four forces that weave
Our time-space cocoons
For us as individuals and groups
And constantly reshape our world
Are religion and ideology
Science and technology
Resources and demography
Climate and natural forces.
07.15.11

Conflict & Compormise

Whenever conflict polarizes people
Truth lies in between their feuding beliefs
But neither faction is capable of viewing that reality
Which is discernible only through mediation and compromise
Often last resorts utilized after mutual exhaustion.
07.14.11

Charlatans & Humanity

Charlatans are of two types, corrupt and delusional;
The corrupt pretend that what they do is right
While the delusional believe that it is right
And in between these two extremes
Reclines deceitful humanity.
07.13.11

Laws & Freedom

All laws, rules, commandments, and traditions
Put limitations on personal freedoms;
Total, uninhibited freedom
Is primordial anarchy.
07.12.11

Humans & Gullibility

Human race gullibility
Provides the fertile soil for—
Rhetoric, advertising, ideologies,
Charlatanism, healing and health beliefs,
Political views, religious feuds, nationalism
And all kinds of sales and marketing schemes.
07.11.11

Fortunes & Pyramids

Those with fortunes
Build pyramids…
07.10.11

Corruption & Storm

Corruption, is like air
Pervasive, tacit, everywhere
But, every now and then, a storm
Reveals its devastating effects.
07.09.11

Victory & Hangover

Victory is intoxicating
Then comes the hangover.
07.08.11

Life & Stages

Birth, rise, demise, and death
Are the four stages of life
And all four are modifiable
Depending on circumstances.
07.07.11

Law & Lawlessness

An un-enforced law
Invites lawlessness.
07.06.11

Spirituality & Materialism

To those who dwell in the houses of spirit
Having less is more;
To those who dwell in the palaces of gold
Having more is less;
Unlike spiritualism, materialism is insatiable.
07.05.11

Cheerfulness & Beauty

Nothing is more attractive than cheerfulness;
To retain cheerfulness in the face of adversity
And to make cheerfulness one’s primary persona
Is the most irresistible kind of beauty.
07.04.11

Ideas & Veracity

The love of an idea
Leads one to invest
Great time and effort
In working towards that idea,
Which imparts great significance to it
Regardless, unfortunately, of its veracity.
07.03.11

Years & Thieves

The years are thieves
Benevolent at first
Ruthless at last;
They give us all
Then take it all away.
07.02.11

Age & Aging

Age advances quickly for the old, slowly for the young;
That is why the old can hardly believe their advancing ages
While the young can hardly believe that they will ever get old.
07.01.11