Opportunities & Time

Many opportunities
Perceived as ephemeral
Are lost in the waiting
For better opportunities
That never materialize.
11.08.12

Beauty & Notice

Beauty unnoticed
Withers without impact.
11.07.12

Inside & Outside

Concentrating on our inside world
Instead of on the outside world
Is the shortest means to joy.
11.06.12

Wisdom & Future

Wisdom is skeptical;
It peers into the future
Before making up its mind.
11.05.12

Greatness & Power

In earthly matters
Greatness and power
Tend to be mutually exclusive;
What is powerful cannot also be great
And what is great cannot also be powerful.
Thus Alexander cannot also be Homer
Churchill cannot also be Shakespeare
And Caesar cannot also be Dante.
11.04.12

Interaction & Seclusion

Good ideas
Come with interaction
And diminish with seclusion.
11.03.12

Time & Wasting

Wasting time is doubly harmful;
It robs both the present and the future
Of life’s infinite potentials.
11.02.12