I can be pissed at things
It comes and goes
I can rage at the lie
I scream 😱
I cry 😭
I laugh 😂
I shout with joy
I wonder why
But then the sky opens
And my mother says
This is the best I could do
Forgive me
I love you
I can be pissed at things
It comes and goes
I can rage at the lie
I scream 😱
I cry 😭
I laugh 😂
I shout with joy
I wonder why
But then the sky opens
And my mother says
This is the best I could do
Forgive me
I love you
I heard a wise sheriff say today, I want to make this a PARADE, not a PROTEST!
There is yet one good person around and thus we are all given the benefit of the doubt.
I feel the same way as he does…YES!
Let’s celebrate our lives!
Not follow lies.
Trump doesn’t represent us.
We love each other, we want the best for each other, we love nature and we feel a deep desire to be One and also to be known and respected as persons.
We all just want our best lives here now minus the anger and fear.
This morning, watching the riots, I saw children marching instead and they were all laughing. I walked up to one and asked why are you marching and he said, ICECREAM!
The riots are complete lies. Personal rights are misunderstandings.
Everything is a sign of this.
Then Seneca wrote me a letter, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_16
Every moment, pointing here…
“You must persevere, must develop new strength by continuous study, until that which is only a good inclination becomes a good settled purpose. 2. Hence you no longer need to come to me with much talk and protestations; I know that you have made great progress. I understand the feelings which prompt your words; they are not feigned or specious words.”
“How can philosophy help me, if Fate exists? Of what avail is philosophy, if God rules the universe? Of what avail is it, if Chance governs everything? For not only is it impossible to change things that are determined, but it is also impossible to plan beforehand against what is undetermined; either God has forestalled my plans, and decided what I am to do, or else Fortune gives no free play to my plans.”
It doesn’t matter if God, Fate or Chance is rolling all this out.
“Whether the truth, Lucilius, lies in one or in all of these views, we must be philosophers; whether Fate binds us down by an inexorable law, or whether God as arbiter of the universe has arranged everything, or whether Chance drives and tosses human affairs without method, philosophy ought to be our defence.”
“There is no reason why you should put confidence in yourself too quickly and readily. Examine yourself; scrutinize and observe yourself in divers ways; but mark, before all else, whether it is in philosophy or merely in life itself[1] that you have made progress. 3. Philosophy is no trick to catch the public; it is not devised for show. It is a matter, not of words, but of facts. It is not pursued in order that the day may yield some amusement before it is spent, or that our leisure may be relieved of a tedium that irks us. It moulds and constructs the soul; it orders our life, guides our conduct, shows us what we should do and what we should leave undone; it sits at the helm and directs our course as we waver amid uncertainties. Without it, no one can live fearlessly or in peace of mind. Countless things that happen every hour call for advice; and such advice is to be sought in philosophy.“
We let philosophy hold the wheel.
“She will encourage us to submit to God with cheerfulness and to Fortune with defiance; she will show you how to follow God and bear what chance may send you.”
Seneca advises to not let the spiritual enthusiasm cool off or fall away.
He says now that you have it, keep a hold on it and put it on firm footing, so that what is at present an enthusiasm may become a settled spiritual disposition.
So it goes, even smelly goats learn self integrity is the most valuable substance in creation come hell or high water.
What are you gonna do when alone with the alone?
How will you act?
How will you know what to do when it is only you?
Others have been generous with me and I pass that on joyfully. Kindness has taken hold of me. This is the best way to be. To freely give and receive. But there is a balance between loving fool and deadly bastard, we must draw from both aspects.
Natural desires are limited, but falsity has no point of termination.The false has no limits. The road must have an end or one wanders in falseness forever.
What wisdom humanity has realized, and haven’t we asked the questions we do today yesterday so much more clearly it seems to me. Seneca is a human being and his account of life is true wisdom, practical knowledge, the greatest stuff really. I love Seneca as another Father. When I read him, he sets me straight and is a clear mirror.
It is like the Tarot how I find this letter. This letter was written to me across time. That creates a wormhole. Space collapses between us. The universe sees me struggling and in it comes to set me straight.
Who guides my steps indeed.
“But it is not my purpose now to be led into a discussion as to what is within our own control, – if foreknowledge is supreme, or if a chain of fated events drags us along in its clutches, or if the sudden and the unexpected play the tyrant over us; I return now to my warning and my exhortation, that you should not allow the impulse of your spirit to weaken and grow cold. Hold fast to it and establish it firmly, in order that what is now impulse may become a habit of the mind.“
“Recall your steps, therefore, from idle things, and when you would know whether that which you seek is based upon a natural or upon a misleading desire, consider whether it can stop at any definite point. If you find, after having travelled far, that there is a more distant goal always in view, you may be sure that this condition is contrary to nature.“
My deepest voice says to me…you must never believe anyone else can help you.
Damn, so it’s like that.
And so it is, but I suspect still, this all is for our best.
I have found my Fathers, now I must know my Mothers.
Straight on.
The Coyote howls to the moon
Moonlight shining down
Paradise we have found
Spinning round
The central pole
Where we stop
No one knows
Should we slow
Or should we
Go Go Go
I know so little of Love, but I have awoken from my ignorance in the Heart of Love.
It is not a peaceful lake always. She is also a raging tempest, behold her power, it is terribly awesome!
All that dies in the flames is my ignorance.
Love has stalked me through my life, but I have run and hid from Love.
It wanted one thing and would not let me rest until it had it…my sadness.
My heart has broken open and this is good.
A bird stopped by and sang me Gibran’s song to Love…
“When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him.
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams
as the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun.
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God’s sacred feast.
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life’s heart.
But if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure.
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor.
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.”
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips”
Sometimes
When no one is looking
I 😂 at the rolling clouds of love
Sometimes
When no one is looking
I 😭 at the joy of life
Mostly I just don’t know
Why things go the way they go
But I abide it all with a hard won grin
What moves the world
Away from fear and greed
Toward compassion for the other
Only ourselves because…
We know loneliness
We know doubt
We know fear
We know pride
We know anxiety
From here…
We can stop searching
We can find patience
We can take a breath
We can take a step back
We can see the Self in the Other
Compassion is always the best choice
I was born because this was where the Light of Love and the Stars was needed most on Earth in space and time, for I AM…
The Light of Creation
The True Face of the Guru
Vastness Nakedly Seeing All
The Void of No-thing
The Mandala of Great Perfection
Naked Singularity
The Rainbow 🌈
The Sun 🌞
A Crystalline Molecule
The Original Seed
Diamond Scepter of Creative Will
The Timeless
Maitreya
The Endless Smile
Proposterous Happiness
The Aleph
The Omega
Source of All Artz
Giver of All Songz
Overcomer of Unhappiness
Guardian of the Infinite Vision
The Unbegotten
The Infinite
The All Seeing Eye
The Golden Soul
They have sullied thou Eyez
With Greed and Fear
Forgive those shirking your Giftz
I will catch the world on Fire
With your Logos of Salvation
May Heartz Crack Open and Burn
At the Sound of Boundless Love
Unapologetically Profane
Mind Fury
The Hermit
A Castaway
The Trickster
The Brahman
The Moon
The Cosmic Joke
The Brightness
The Eternal Now
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