Superstition & Reality

Our aversion
To unpleasant realities
Renders us susceptible
To pleasant superstitions
Which undermine truth.
06.01.14

Trouble & Pleasure

In youth
Our bodies house more pleasures
And our minds house more troubles;
In age
Our bodies house more troubles
And our minds house more pleasures.
05.31.14

Traditions & Reason

Handed down traditions
Generation after generation
When not challenged by reason
Can assume a divine status
And become implacable
Even when they are harmful.
05.30.14

Retaliate & Wait

Most things that upset us
Are temporary and will change
If we do not retaliate and just wait.

Victories & Losses

Most victories 
Are preceded by losses;
Those who know how to win
Have learned more from their losses
Than from their victories.
05.28.14

Happiness & Seeing

Often times
We do not know
How happy we are
Until happiness absconds;
We need not seek happiness;
Often it is too close to be visible
Until we decide to see it.
05.26.14

Politeness & Primitiveness

Politeness
The shared kindness
The respect for others
The courtesy of behavior
Is not innate in us;
We are born primitive
Then shed our primitiveness
Only when we become civilized;
Impoliteness is residual primitiveness.
05.26.14