Nature & Teaching

With beauty,
Nature teaches us love;
With power,
It teaches us respect;
With infinity,
It teaches us humility.
03.31.2015

Judgement & Understanding

To judge is not to understand;
To understand is to explain behavior;
To explain behavior, precludes judgement
But need not exonerate the wrongdoing.
03.30.2915

Love & Lifetime

To love a year is to live a year;
The sum of loveless years
Adds up to nothing.
03.29.2015

Reinvention & Self

To move up through the stages of life
One must reinvent one’s self continuously;
Insistence on remaining the same
With the same mind set
Same powers
And same world view
Stifles intellectual and spiritual growth.
03.28.2015

Worth & Loss

We appreciate what we had
More than what we have;
We notice loss more
Than we notice bounty;
We learn the worth what we have
When under the threat of losing it.
03.27.2015

Vulnerability & Need

Vulnerability comes of need;
We are rendered most vulnerable
When we need what we don’t have.
03.26.2015

Violence & Humanity

Violence and cruelty
Can become contagious
Grow to epidemic proportions
And dehumanize populations.
03.25.2015

Happiness & Power

There is less happiness
In being famous or powerful
More happiness in being ordinary
And most happiness in rejecting
Fame or power in favor of the
Contentment of the simple
And ordinary life.
03.24.2015

Dogs & Humanity

We love dogs because
They don’t have opinions
They need us like children
They love us unconditionally
They forgive us our trespasses
More than we forgive others
They do not hold grudges
And they never grow up;
Dogs think of us people
Better than we think of ourselves
And much better than we think of others.
03.23.2015

Love & Family

We use love to salute;
“I love you,” we shout
“I love you too,”
They shout back
But we forget to tell
Those we deeply love
Especially our family
“I love you.”
03.22.2015

Winning & Love

Can’t win a dying man’s heart with money
Can’t win a sated man’s stomach with food
Can’t win a prisoner’s mind with honey
Can’t win a desert man with fire wood
Can’t win with what one is not in need of
But you can win most every one with love.
03.20.15

Mindset & Conflict

To remain mired in a certain mindset
And refuse to change one’s mind
Fuels most human conflicts.
03.19.2015

Duty & Virtue

To help when asked
Is a duty;
To help when unasked
Is a virtue.
03.18.2015

Love & Joy

To love cheerfully and fill our moments
With contented joy would, by default,
Become our calling if we were to find out
That our time will soon be up.
03.18.05

Minds & Identity

We live in our minds
No matter where we are
Or with whom we live.
We are our minds
And when our minds leave
We become empty shells
Capable of suffering
But not of joy.
03.16.2015

Isolation & Love

Isolation leads to decay
Because it insulates us from love;
We are social creatures
Because we need to exchange love.
03.15.2015

Fear & Relief

Even when our fears are allayed
And we no longer have anything to fear
We continue to fear.
03.14.2015

Mistakes & Learning

We have to learn and relearn
Over and over, from our own mistakes
Before we can reach that level of wisdom
Which protects us from repeating
The very same mistakes
Which we are inclined to make.
03.13.2015

Love & Enemies

Since one cannot truly love one’s enemies
The closest one can get to loving them
Is to make an effort to understand
Why they are the way they are;
Understanding is the antidote
Of anger and hate.
03.12.2015

Poverty & Corruption

Ignorance, poverty, and hunger
Are the incubators of corruption
Because they invite lawlessness
And render righteousness absurd.
03.11.15

Fame & Importance

Some of us are famous
Some of us are important
And some are famous and important
But most of us are neither famous nor important;
Yet it is us who are the living measure
Of fame and importance.
As Protagoras said in the 5th century B.C.E
“Man is the measure of all things.”
03.10.2015

Beauty & Goodness

To find some new beauty or goodness
Especially in our aging loved ones
Is our most noble calling
If we live to love.
03.09.2015

Love & Humanity

The only solution
For the human dilemma
Of violence, deceit, terrorism
And universal corruption at all levels
Is for us all to learn to love one another;
One can do no wrong when one loves humanity.
03.08.2015

Time & Luggage

Time is a traveling suitcase
Whether we pack it light or pack it tight
It always travels at the same speed
And at the end, we always arrive
Without any luggage.
03.07.2014

Unaware & Good

The good we do, unaware
Can impact people’s lives
More than the good we do
When aware;
Being good comes of loving
Without rhyme or reason.
03.06.2015

Character & Destiny

We all possess
The seeds of life;
Where we plant them
How we nurture them
When we harvest them
And how we employ them
Explains why our character
Determines our destiny.
03.05.2015

Joy & Harm

Enjoying what we do
Is blessed if it helps others
And accursed if it harms others.
03.04.2015

Folly & Foolishness

Folly and foolishness are like spices;
Too much renders food inedible
Too little renders it bland
But the correct amount
Renders it delectable.
03.03.2015.

Enlightenment & Humanity

Violence
Is an integral part
Of our human nature;
Controlling it requires enlightenment
But enlightening humanity, so far
In spite of 200,000 years
Has not been possible.
03.02.2015

Certainty & Change

Since the only certainty
On earth and in the universe
Is constant change
Why do we seriously take
What we think we know today
When all we really know
Is that it will change
Tomorrow?
03.01.15