Habits & Addictions

Habit addictions
Euphemized as habits
Have conquered the world;
In the beginning was alcohol
Then came tobacco, then obesity
Then the non-touch screens
And now the touch-screens
And each of them has changed
The history and behavior of humanity.
10.01.2015

Times & Colors

Good times end or stop
And bad times end or stop
But no one can erase the shades
With which good times and bad times
Color our lives and our views of the world.
09.30.2015

Joy & Moments

The most important thing
Anyone can teach children
Is to enjoy all the moments
That life offers;
Learning to enjoy the good
In spite of the bad
Improves our lives
And our defenses.
09.29.2015

Care & Share

To care
Is to share.
09.28.2015

Between & Life

Between possible and impossible
Lie our dreams
Between probable and improbable
Lie our lives
Between hope and faith
Lie our loves.
09.27.2015

Hands & Fate

When I cannot reach my feet
Nor alone walk down the street
When my cataracts bring night
To a world that once was bright
When my ears no longer hear
And each day adds one more fear
When the years accumulate
And my friends succumb to fate
All I need to rise and shine
Is your hand entwined in mine.
09.26.2015

LIfe & Is

Thrills are ephemeral
Suffering, prolonged
Pleasures, fleeting
Pain, enduring
Joy, sublime
Memories, indelible
Happiness, aspiration
Love, meaning
And work, living.
09.25.2015

Breath & Love

When underwater
You held my hand
I found my breath;
When above water
You let go of me
I suffocated.
09.24.2015

Laughter & Abuse

To subdue your abuser
Laugh as he abuses you
And your loud laughter
Will forever echo
In his soul.
09.23.2015

Kindness & Violence

For every act of violence
There are millions of kindness
And for every act of ugliness
There are millions of beauty;
Violence proclaims attention via hubris
Whereas kindness is tacit and humble;
The world is made of millions of individuals
Who are kind and beautiful, but is soiled
By just a few who are violent and ugly;
Violence and ugliness are the defaults of despair.
09.22.2015

Language & People

Languages form formidable boarders;
To understand a people
And to be understood by them
One must speak the people’s language;
To peer into the soul of a person
Or into the culture of his people
Can best done through language.
09.21.2015

World & Everything

I stole a glance to where you stood
And all at once I understood
Of all the world and everything
You are by far the loveliest thing.
09.20.2015

Force & Laughter

To laugh when we should frown
To smile when we should cry
To hug when we should fight
To love when we should hate
Is to force intelligence on stupidity
Gentleness on aggression
Kindness on force
And beauty on ugliness.
09.19.2015

Life & Security

Waiting for security
May mean waiting forever;
Wherever we may be
Security remains an illusion;
Life is an infinite series of insecurities.
09.18.2015

Same & Difference

To say:
There is no difference
Is to mean:
I cannot see the difference;
Since, in this world, no two are alike
The problem always lies in our perception.
09.17.2015

Friendship & Love

Friendships and loves are soul gardens;
They wither if not frequently tended
And stiffen when over tended.
09.16.2015

Good & Passion

Good teachers
Infuse their students
With the passion to learn;
Good mothers
Infuse their children
With the passion to love;
Good fathers
Infuse their children
With the passion to be honorable;
And good wives
Infuse their husbands
With the passion to live.
09.15.2015

Nature & Human

Human nature
Contains all the good
And all the bad in the world;
To improve the state of the world
We must work on improving human nature
Otherwise, all the conceived solutions
Will not prove good enough.
09.14.2015

Peace & Animalism

To achieve inner peace
We must tame our animalism
But guard against slaughtering it
Lest we become boring robots.
09.13.2015

Passions & Life

Good passions lead to love
Bad passions lead to hate
And the loss of passions
Leads to inertia and death.
09.12.2015

Ignorance & Enlightenment

Since enlightenment requires
Dedicated, continuous effort
Whereas ignorance is smug
And requires no effort
There will always be
More ignorance and
Less enlightenment
In the world.
09.11.2015

Best & Refreshed

Fatigue, hunger, and sleep deprivation
Diminish our ability to think, work,
Create, be polite, and enjoy life;
To continue to do our best
We must stay refreshed
And replenished.
09.10.2015

Loyalists & Power

In politics, finance,
And national affairs,
The more the power
The more the loyalists
And when power leaves
The loyalists follow it.
09.09.2015

Fear & Love

Fears are of seven types:
Fear of harm or pain
Fear of the unknown
Fear of loneliness
Fear of illness
Fear of loss
Fear of shame or infirmity
But the worst fear of all
Is the fear of lovelessness
Of living without love
And of dying without love.
09.08.2015

Biases & Generalizations

Since biases are generalizations
And generalizations are biases
And since generalizations
Are mostly wrong
We must be careful
Whenever we generalize
Lest we find out in due time
That we have often been wrong.
09.07.2015

Living & Noticing

Being content to live, unaware of life
Is the most difficult part of living;
Noticing all the infinite miracles
Of life’s infinite daily details
Makes living much easier
And far more joyful.
09.06.2015

Resistance & Change

An important reason for unending human conflict
Is a staunch resistance to changing our opinions
In spite of strong evidence against our beliefs;
Blind, intransigent loyalty to personal beliefs
Is a characteristic and detrimental trait
Which causes us all to suffer.
09.05.2015

Animals & Us

We all know
The different ways
We think of animals
But do we dare know
What the animals
Think of us?
09.04.2015

Death & Waste

Spending a lot of time
Thinking about death
Is a great waste
Of precious life.
09.03.2015

Indomitable & Attitude

Indomitable are those who
Instead of resisting the unchangeable
Conquer misfortune with their blithe attitudes.
09.02.2015

Love & Soul

Love is our immortal soul;
It ever moves the world
Long after we die;
If love ever dies
Life on earth will end.
09.01.2015

Love & Loss

Love turns into despair
When betrayed by sudden loss.
08.31.2015