Difference & Between

The difference between reading and learning
Between judgement and understanding
Between thinking and realizing
Between hearing and listening
Between feeling and sensing
Between space and distance
Between looking and seeing
And between hope and faith
Is the difference between
Information and knowledge
And between opinions and wisdom.
06.30.2015

Trust & Heart

To continue to trust
In spite of those few
Who are not trust worthy
Is to live with a big heart
Instead of a frightened one.
06.29.2015

Anger & Power

Only those who feel angry and powerless
Can justify discharging their powers
Regardless of the human cost.
06.28.2015

Society & Censorship

If we withhold
What we should say
Or what we aught to do
Because of what ‘they might say’
We are submitting to social censorship.
05.27.2015

Excellence & Criticism

Excellence
Can not be achieved
With passion and effort alone;
It requires both, severe self-criticism
And open mindedness to criticism by others.
06.26.2015

Together & Apart

When two find one another
And it’s a perfect fit
So not to stray or smother
They still must work at it
For should they choose to wander
Each might land in a pit.
06.25.2015

Theories & Truths

It takes a long time
For theories to be proven true;
And while only few theories
Are ever proven true
Most of them continue
To delude the many people
Who continue to believe in them
Long after they have been disproved.
06.24.2015

Politeness & Character

To remain polite
In spite of life’s aggravations
Defines our character;
To remain calm,
Defines our capacity for peace;
To remain cheerful,
Defines our magnanimity;
And to remain sympathetic,
Defines our capacity for understanding.
06.23.2015

Compliments & Soul

Compliments are dangerous;
If we truly believe them
We migrate away from our souls
And if we do not, we remain anchored;
To believe that one is exceptional
Is to believe that the rest of us are not
Which is a grave misrepresentation;
Self inflation starves our humility
Which in turn starves our humanity.
06.22.2015

Love & Return

To love without return can be a pleasure
We all love heroes who do not know us;
To be loved without return is a burden
Because it breaks the hearts of those
Who feel closely attached to us;
We seldom choose whom or what to love
Love chooses and we obey.
06.21.2015

Love & Age

Love is not the force
Which grows old with time;
We are the ones who tire and age.
06.20.2015

Age & Passions

To age yet keep our passions young
Is to nurture and sustain passions
Against time’s mighty currents
That we may live youthfully
While aging gracefully.
06.19.2015

Truth & Us

We are most blind
When we believe
Ours is the only truth;
And most sighted
When we are willing
To believe other truths.
06.18.2015

Anger & Love

We are most harmful
To our fellow humans
When we’re full of anger
And we are most helpful
When we’re full of love.
06.18.2015

Knowledge & Superstition

Whenever knowledge stops
Superstition starts.
06.17.2015

Love & Death

When a love is lost
Or a loved one is lost
Or a loved thing is lost
Love refuses to die
And reattaches itself
To yet another love object;
The divine force of love within us
Can never die because it is a part of God.
06.16.2015

Thoughts & Minds

Our thoughts often mislead us;
When we take time to reconsider
We often end up changing our minds.
06.15.2016

Love & Truth

Love is always believable
Even when it is not;
When we hear: ‘I love you’
We want to believe it
Even when it is not true;
We are all ever hungry for love
And ever gullible to it.
06.14.2015

Youth & Intellect

Youth is instinctive and age is reflective;
Life is a journey from instinct to intellect.
06.13.2015

Art & Beauty

Art is proof
That life is not enough;
The passion to create beauty
Lurks in us all.
06.12.2015

Cheerfulness & Beauty

The beauty of cheerfulness
Is more alluring and enduring
Than the beauty of form;
We all avoid gloomy persons
Even if they are beautiful
And seek cheerful personae
Even if they are homely.
06.11.2015

Famous & Representative

Few are famous in life
But not in death;
Few are famous in death
But not in life;
Most are not famous
Neither in life nor in death
But are, nevertheless
The true representatives
Of all of humanity.
06.10.2016

Saints & Heroes

To find hope in the well of despair
To carve a good life out of a bad state
To find joy in the timorous dungeons of fate
To find love in the tenebrous alleys of misery
To forge meaning out of the meaningless
And to age with great expectations
Is not the province of saints
But of courageous hearts.
06.09.2015

We & Cling

To postpone excellence, we cling to complacency
To postpone friendship, we cling to reticence
To postpone commitment, we cling to fear
To postpone life, we cling to addictions
To postpone joy, we cling to distress
To postpone ethics, we cling to urges
To postpone love, we cling to selfishness
And
To postpone biases, we cling to open-mindedness
To postpone aggression, we cling to kindness
To postpone judgement, we cling to humility
To postpone apathy, we cling to empathy
To postpone opinions, we cling to study
To postpone death, we cling to reason
To postpone defeat, we cling to hope
To postpone age, we cling to fitness.
06.08.2015

Physique & Cover

Feminine physique, when tastefully covered
Conjures fascination and fires up imagination;
But, when it is revealed beyond intimations
It loses much of its allure and mystique.
06.07.2015

Life & God

Retreating into our minds
Reclining inside our imaginations
Viewing the same thing from all angles
Deciphering humanity one individual at a time
Delighting at the panoramic spectrum of life
Realizing that the universal, unifying force
Which defines life is naught but love
Will help us find and understand
The spirit of God within us.
06.06.2015

Time & Health

Two things, which we do not own
But which we must protect and guard
Otherwise they will be taken away from us
Our time and our health;
If we do not guard our time, it will be wasted
And if do not protect our health, we will lose it.
06.05.2015

Entertainment & Screens

When we become sitting gluttons
Of screen entertainments
We will in time forget
How to entertain ourselves.
06.05.2015

Unconscious & Remorse

Blame shifting through denying facts
Is an unconscious mental stratagem;
Our minds would believe anything
If it can lessen pain and remorse.
06.03.2015

Ordinary & Aspiration

To aspire
To become ordinary
Takes wisdom and courage;
One must reject praise, awards
Honors, status, fame, temptations
But cling to ethics, excellence
Exercise, family, simplicity
And love.
06.02.2015

Change & Life

All conflicts
Disappear with time;
Everything modern
Becomes outdated with time;
Everything old
Becomes interesting with time;
Change, the only measure of time
Can only be perceived by life.
06.01.2015