Reality & Feelings

Life is about feelings
Whereas reality is about facts
And the two are in a constant tug of war.
12.31.12

Passions & Age

Age tempers passions
And youth inflames them.
12.30.12

Pain & Joy

Forgetting pain is a blessing;
Forgetting joy is a curse.
12.30.12

Urges & Callings

When urges become callings
We become their slaves.
12.29.12

Fashions & Hesitation

Fashions
No matter how grotesque
Are seriously espoused
Without hesitation.
12.28.12

Superstition & Imagination

None of us is free form superstition
Because imagination furnishes explanations
When reason is unable to.
12.27.12

Friends & Truth

Ask friends
What do they think
About what’s dear to you
And they will only tell you
What you are ready to hear.
12.26.12

Joy & Happiness

Joy comes
When we think of others;
Happiness comes
When we think of ourselves.
12.25.12

Christmas & Meaning

Christmas means doing something nice
For someone who has mistreated you
And doing it with joyful sincerity.
12.24.12

Worlds & Imagination

All the complex worlds we live in
Pale when they are compared
To the worlds of imagination.
12.13.12

Societies & Fears

What societies fear i.e. societal fears
Are more dangerous than personal fears
Because societies support the frightened
Admonish those that remain un-frightened
And eliminate all checks against irrationality.
12.22.12

Pets & Elderly

We often treat our pets
Far better than we treat our elderly.
12.21.12

Quick & Slow 12.20.12

Quick victories have bad side effects;
Slow victories have good side effects.
12.20.12

Society & Best

What does society do with those
Whose best is never good enough?
It blames them instead of blaming itself
For producing them.
12.19.12

Dog & Human

If we can understand, forgive, and love
The dog that bites us
We should be able to do the same
For the human who does the same.
12.18.12

No & Life

If we say no to life
Our souls will be exiled
And we will be incarcerated
Behind the jail bars of our fears. 
12.17.12

Love & Thought

Love does not understand or think;
It merely feels and yearns.
12.16.12

Death & Life

Death is life’s noble refuge;
Think of the crowded suffering
That would ensue, were there no death.
12.15.12

Technonogy & Destruction

Advanced technology
Invites advanced corruption
Encourages creative violence
And amplifies destruction.
12.14.12

Listen & Talk

To seem wise
One must listen;
To seem foolish
One must talk;
To become wise
One must understand.
12.13.12

Honest & Crook

It may be easier to make money as a crook
Than as an honest person
But it’s much harder to have peace and joy
As a crook than as an honest person.
12.12.12

Loyalty & Reality

Loyalty often lags behind reality;
So many of us remain staunchly loyal
To what has already become obsolete. 
12.11.12

Desire & Yearning

To have desire
Is more important than to fulfill desire;
For unfulfilled desire sustains yearning
Whereas desire fulfilled, kills yearning.
12.10.12

An Open Mind

An open mind is such a rare event:
To bear - the brunt of changing truths, unbent
Upheld beliefs till disillusionment
Foul acts repeating on the human stage
And fate’s surprises and exiles of age - 
Nor lose direction, judge, or lash with rage
And pay the price of freedom, oft unfair
Accept us as we are, not who, nor where;
Indeed an open mind is something rare.
12.09.12

Primitiveness & Enlightenment

Primitiveness
Is a formidable enemy
That no power can ever defeat
Without deploying its special forces
Of dedicated, long term enlightenment.
12.09.12

Evolution & Survival

Evolution
Does not always require millennia
Nor has to favor survival of the fittest;
Make life easy and lazy generations prosper
Make life hard and pioneer generations dominate.
12.08.12

Waiting & Gratitude

Do not wait for gratitude
If it arrives, it is obsequious
And if it does not, it is ugly.
12.07.12

Love & Sex

When sex gets old
It is replaced by nostalgia;
When love gets old
It is replaced by loneliness.
12.06.12

Wisdom & Peaching

Wisdom preached
Is wisdom squandered;
Like an honest living
Wisdom must be earned.
12.05.12

Predictable & Unpredictable

Nothing complex
Proceeds as planned;
It is predictable
That the unpredictable
Shall always happen.
12.04.12

Power & Poverty

Abject poverty and extreme power
Make it easier to compromise ethics;
In most societies, it is the middle class
That is the most righteous and honorable.
12.03.12

Time & Beliefs

To make up one’s mind
Is an exercise in transience;
If one allows enough time to pass
One’s mind will invariably change beliefs.
12.02.12