Behavior & Sincerity

Good behavior
Is superior to sincerity;
One is judged by good behavior
But no one can ever judge sincerity.
09.30.13

Loud & Unaware

Loud people
Noise-pollute quietude
And bother everyone else
With their lack of awareness;
And if asked to lower their voice
They become offended and defensive.
09.29.13

Mistakes & Schools

Mistakes are of two types
Those discovered after the fact
And those foreseen and avoided;
It’s only after we have learned enough
From having made a lot of mistakes
That we can avoid making more;
Mistakes are our best schools.
09.28.30

Good Ideas & Challenges

Good ideas grow out of challenges;
Trouble-free and need-free environments
Which we can provide for our children
Stifle their creativity training.
09.27.13

Debate & Fighting

The enlightened
Debate and learn from each other;
The opinionated
Argue to prove each other wrong;
And the primitive
Fight whenever they disagree.
09.25.13

Friends & Company

Very good friends
Are those we like enough
To crave and seek their company;
Friends who don’t seek each other’s company
Are comrades.
09.25.13

Thoughts & Words

If we were all held accountable
For all our unarticulated thoughts
Instead of only our words and actions
We would all be regarded as brutes.
09.24.13

Favors & Inconvenience

When we are asked
To do someone a favor
And we feel inconvenienced
It is because we had forgotten
The many times that we had asked
For favors, and were graciously obliged.
09.23.13

Exceptions & Rules

All rules have exceptions
But exceptions have no rules;
When we cannot make allowance
For exceptions, we commit injustice
By failing those unsuspecting innocents;
In life, exceptions are the rule.
09.22.13

Nothing & Emptiness

'Nothing'
Does not exist;
Wherever there is space
Filling up the emptiness
Then there is something;
Space contains our universe;
Space is the most abundant ‘thing’.
09.20.13

Special Interests & National Welfare

Individuals
Lobbies, unions, parties
Special interest groups, etc.
If they would place the welfare
Of the countries they live in
Above their own interests
They would behave
Differently.
09.19.13

Ideas & Fools

If it is foolish
To fight about ideas
Then the whole world
Is one big fool.
09.19.13

Relationships & Appearances

What most attracts us in relationships
Besides the mutual fulfillment of needs
Is personality, character, and behavior;
Appearances are appetizers
Which are forgotten
Once the meal is served.
09.18.13

Foreigeners & Tongues

A foreigner
Is not the person
Who came from a different land;
It’s the one who speaks a different tongue;
Our ears are our most xeno-discriminative organs.
09.17.13

Laughter & Play

Laughter and playfulness
Are our highest flags of health
For when we don’t feel well
We don’t laugh nor play.
09.16.13

Anger & Danger

Anger harms thrice;
It harms the one enraged
It harms the target of one’s rage
And harms those who are within range;
No one is safe from our most dangerous madness.
09.15.13

Behavior & Others

Since when must good behavior
Be contingent on the behavior of others?
09.14.13

Insults & Reasons

If you approach
Disagreeable situations
Looking for insults
You will find many;
But if you approach
Looking for reasons
You will understand.
09.13.13

Own & Give

Everything we own
Shall be taken away;
Everything we give
Shall stay.
09.12.13

Loss & Change

Permanent loss
Changes us permanently.
09.11.13

Words & Worth

Words
When numerous
Diminish in worth.
09.10.13

Excuses & Heart

Excuses stop
Only the halfhearted;
For the whole-hearted
Excuses become challenges.
09.09.13

Charm & Wisdom

Political elections
Favor charm over wisdom.
09.08.13

Initial & Success

Initial success is a proverbial trap;
It promotes fallacies and superstitions
And blinds us to ultimate truths.
09.07.13

Best & Best

To always do one’s best
Is more noble and humble
Than to always try to be the best.
09.06.13

Intelligence & Wisdom

The intelligent are many
But the wise are few.
09.05.13

Conscience & Justification

Our conscience
God-made or man-shaped
Is vulnerable to justifications;
Many an evil deed has been committed
With a clear conscience.
09.04.13

Knowing & Deluding

Those who know a lot about a little
But profess to know a lot about a lot
Delude the unsuspecting public
With false hopes.
09.03.13

Expense & Trials

If you think that:
Education is expensive, try ignorance
Democracy, try dictatorship
Tolerance, try intolerance
Freedom, try oppression
Science, try superstition
Paying taxes, try chaos
Healthcare, try illness
Love, try loneliness
Life, try death.
09.02.13