Love & Aspiration

Aspiring towards something
Hoping for something
Wanting something
Come of loving that something;
Love powers all aspirations, hopes, and desires;
It is the grand generator of life’s energy and actions.
02.28.14

Best & Excellence

Excellence means
That one has done his best
And that his best is better than
The best of most others.
02.27.14

Superstition & Evidence

There is no mind
Immune to superstition;
To cleanse the mind of superstitions
One must be willing to examine the evidence.
02.26.14

Spirit & Defeat

It is hard to defeat
A cheerful person who
Confronts anger and hate
With a peaceful smile;
The Jesus spirit in us
Is undefeatable.
02.25.14

Children & Future

A country
That neglects its children
Risks its future.
02.24.14

Peace & Passion

Without hungers, passions and desires
There would be no conflicts or wars
No love, hate, or romance
No struggle or competition
No art, science, or creativity
No corruption, cruelty, or killing
No ideology, friendship, or community
And no reproduction, family, or learning;
Without hungers, passions, and desires
Universal peace would quietly reign
But life would not be worth living.
02.23.14

Bombs & Demography

Powerful bombs decimate
And nuclear bombs devastate
But demographic bombs dominate.
02.22.14

Cheerfulness & Beauty

Cheerfulness beautifies
Is more attractive than beauty
And, unlike beauty, blossoms with time;
Clinging to cheerfulness is vital
Clinging to beauty is futile.
02.21.14

Wisdom & Skepticism

Saints will love their enemies
Fools may even trust them
But the wise remain skeptical;
Wisdom is intelligent skepticism.
92.20.14

Applause & T'ime

We should restrain our applause
For ideas which, at inception
Seem noble and laudable;
Most of them, in time
Prove not to be so.
02.19.14

Importance & Joy

Insisting on joy
Means not letting anyone or anything
Rob us of our peace or infect us with anger;
What is important is only important
If we assign it importance;
Nothing is important
In and of itself.
02.18.14

Honesty & Corruption

The tug of war
Between honesty and corruption
In spite of all the laws and regulations
If given enough time
Is usually won by corruption.
02.17.14

Suffering & Empathy

Thinking of the suffering of others
If we conjure up empathy
Lessens our own.
02.16.14

Tragedy & Person

Tragedies
When small and personal
Have a great impact
But, when big and national
May pass unnoticed.
02.15.14

Dishonesty & Euphemism

If we use a euphemism
Instead of calling a crook, A CROOK
We would encourage unethical behavior;
An honest person should have no tolerance
For dishonesty.
02.14.14

Friend & Time

Spending time with a friend
Especially when you don’t have time
Is time well sacrificed.
02.13.14

Promotion & Reality

Promotion and propaganda
Are far more effective
In affecting change
Than is evidence;
The human response to appeal
Wreaks havoc on what’s real.
02.12.14

Friendship & Time

Friendship circumvents time;
Friends resume where they had left
Regardless of how much time has passed.
02.11.14

Love & Peace

If we can go to bed
With love in our hearts
Then none of the thoughts
Which bothered us all day long
Will be able to diminish our peace
Because love always washes away
All worry, anger, hate, and pain.
02.10.14

Power & Riders

Those who ride power
Have no idea that power
Is the real rider that is riding them.
02.09.14

Truth & Lies

Those who tell the truth
Know how costly it can be;
But those who lie
Are always surprised to find out
That telling lies ends up being costlier
Than simply telling the truth.
02.07.14

Proof & Crooks

Crooks forget
That it is impossible
To prove beyond doubt
That something happened
When it really did not happen.
02.07.14

Fear & Victory

If we could un-frighten ourselves
By re-examining the evidence
We would win our battles;
When we enter into a conflict
With fearless confidence
Our opponents cower.
02.06.14

Media & Intelligence

The news media
Use a great number of words
To express what could have been said
In but a few, intelligent sentences;
Wasting their watchers’ time
With elaborate packaging
Is causing them to lose
Enlightened audiences.
01.05.14

Governments & Lawlessness

Governments
Always pay more attention
To illegal and criminal activities
But less attention to their etiologies;
Researching and preventing lawlessness
Would be far more cost effective and fruitful
Than merely trying to outwit and regulate the lawless.
02.04.14

Excess & Waste

Excess and waste
May seem normal to us
But they are symptoms of decay;
If we could reverse this inevitable decline
We could rewrite our own history.
02.03/14

Behind & Lurks

Behind love lurks need
Behind lust lurks desire
Behind hate lurks anger
Behind aspiration lurks hope
Behind abuse lurks selfishness
Behind despair lurks hopelessness
Behind coercion and violence lurks ignorance
And behind ignorance lurks self-destruction.
02.02.14

Little & Lot

All of us know
A lot about little
And little about a lot;
But those of us who think
They know a lot about a lot
Cause the most human harm.
02.01.14