Category: philosophy
If I destroy my enemy…..
I destroy myself…..
If I save my enemy…..
I save myself…..
If I know my enemy…..
I know myself…..
If I love my enemy…..
I love myself…..
- Labels: enemy, insight, love, now, perspective, philosophy, war
I listen for Truth
For truth speaks softly
It is not boastful nor proud
Truth whispers low
Solemn quiet
It wraps around
Like Smoke
Subtle and free
Truth Knows no Boundaries
No limits Truth Speaks
From within
Not without
It floats In the spaces
Of dreams
It is not angry or vengeful
Truth simply is
It cannot Be hidden
Nor disguised Truth
Shines Like iridescent Dew
It rests Within Your heart
Of hearts Truth
Unchanged Living
The promise
As it was so
It shall Be
Cry The Tears
Dreamwalker
Lakota
- Labels: ancient wisdom, earth, history, indigenous, philosophy, sustainable, wisdom
“Rise, wake up, seek the wise and realize.
The path is difficult to cross
like the sharpened edge of the razor,
so say the wise.”
(verse 1.3.14 from the Katha Upanishads)
- Labels: altruism, deviant, experience, human, perception, perspective, philosophy, truth
“We are buried beneath the weight of information,
which is being confused with knowledge,
quantity is being confused with abundance
and wealth with happiness.
We are monkeys with money and guns.”
- Labels: corruption, ignorance, perspective, philosophy
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt
- Labels: action, choice, commitment, history, human condition, perspective, philosophy
- Labels: antiwar, deception, enemy, hubris, human, human condition, human rights, humanity, humility, philosophy, psychology, war
Just a Word
‘Terrorist’ is just a word, one I wish I’d never heard
When it’s used to vilify, without the need to question why
Only fools would swift condemn, that which has not befallen them
Until you know what lies behind, the actions of a tortured mind
Thank your God for sparing you, the suffering others have lived through
Where are the cries of just demand, for Arabs driven from their land?
Blame the victim, turn the cheek, praise the bully, kick the weak!
Mock the man who truth does speak
Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy, greed, corruption, torture, lies!
Blair invasion, sly persuasion, annihilation, massacred nation
Keep on running, karma’s coming!
Money talks, truth walks, oil spills, greed kills
Tide is turning, London’s burning!
Bombs will fall and blood will flow, as sure as my own name I know
Until corrupt dictators go, brutal, rotten, to the core
Their day has come, they rule no more
Show me the man who will not fight, to save his child, his home, his right!
You can call him what you like, you’re not in his sorry plight
Cowards stay and Martyrs go, I know not where, but this I know
Speak your truth and stand your ground, fight your corner
When all around, point the finger, purse the lips, pin the label, ‘Terrorist’!
Just a word, but one that sticks, even when the cap don’t fit
But for the grace of God go I, remember that, before you cry
False accusation, names of shame, at those who may not be to blame,
Their crime, refused to play the game, of meek acceptance, dumbing down,
Your life, your choice; Warrior / Clown
I once knew a man
who says death smiles at us all
all a man can do is smile back
- Labels: death, human condition, Life, philosophy
Strength does not come from physical capacity.
It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi
- Labels: altruism, courage, mahatma gandhi, philosophy, strength, truth
Ultimately we’re all dead men
sadly we cannot choose how but
we can decide how we meet that end
so that we are remembered as men
- Labels: courage, death, human condition, perspective, philosophy
Most people don’t really want the truth.
They just want constant reassurance
that what they believe is the truth.
- Labels: corruption, deception, delusion, illusions, lies, philosophy, psychology, truth
You yourself must strive.
The Buddhas only point the way.
Those meditative ones who tread the path
are released from the bonds of Mara.
- Labels: ancient wisdom, art, buddha, buddhism, earth, philosophy, photography
