An American Mantra
Love is for Doves.
Look.
Power makes others cower.
Greed is what you need.
More Money for your Honey,
more toys for your boyz,
a big dinner for the winner,
shota rummy for your tummy,
line up [...]
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An American Mantra – A Poem
Posted in Reality, belief, compassion, love, meditation, musings, poems, poetry, relationship, relationships, religion, sacred, seeking, spirituality, values, tagged belief, compassion, love, meditation, musings, poems, poetry, Reality, relationship, relationships, religion, sacred, seeking, self-help, spirituality, values on September 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Goin’ For a Swim – a Poem
Posted in God, Reality, belief, death, love, meditation, musings, mysticism, poems, poetry, relationship, relationships, sacred, seeking, self-help, spiritual instruction, spiritual teaching, spirituality, values, tagged belief, death, God, love, meditation, musings, mysticism, poems, poetry, Reality, relationship, relationships, sacred, seeking, self-help, spiritual instruction, spiritual teaching, spirituality, values on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Goin’ For a Swim
Left brain, right brain, God brain, no brain
in the light or dark, or maybe rain.
Singin’, Oh, Glory, gotta tell the story,
runnin’ from the place with all the pain.
Saint or sinner, dancin’ for your dinner
tryin’ to pretend it’s all a game,
while worryin’ ’bout the score and
sayin’ you don’t mind, but
watchin’ your [...]
Not Love – a Poem
Posted in Reality, belief, compassion, love, meditation, musings, poems, poetry, relationship, relationships, seeking, self-help, spirituality, values, tagged belief, compassion, love, meditation, musings, poems, poetry, Reality, relationship, relationships, seeking, self-help, spirituality, values on July 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Not Love
It’s not love when I’m afraid, when
I know from many times that
you’ll say
those things with
that expression.
I want you and
already my gut knots, knowing
whatever happens will
hurt.
You don’t do tenderness, not in sex.
Understanding’s not where you
come from.
You wear black robes even when
you’re naked.
I have trouble keeping it up in enemy
territory, waiting for your knives to
cut [...]
Pushing Kids, Screwing with Heads
Posted in Christianity, God, Reality, belief, compassion, fundamentalism, fundamentalist Christianity, fundamentalist religion, love, meditation, musings, parenting, relationship, religion, seeking, self-help, spiritual instruction, spiritual teaching, spirituality, values, tagged belief, compassion, fundamentalism, fundamentalist Christianity, fundamentalist religion, God, love, meditation, musings, parenting, Reality, relationship, religion, seeking, self-help, spiritual instruction, spiritual teaching, spirituality, values on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My standard disclaimer applies.
“I envied … the thought of growing up in a world where someone cared so much about your happiness and so little about what you accomplished in life.”
~ Kelley Armstrong, in “Bitten“
Sometimes I’ll be reading a book and something will just jump out at me, like it’s written in glowing text. [...]
Letters From The Earth – Mark Twain on Fundamentalism
Posted in Christianity, Reality, belief, compassion, fundamentalism, fundamentalist Christianity, fundamentalist religion, love, musings, relationship, religion, seeking, self-help, spirituality, tagged belief, Christianity, compassion, death, fear, fundamentalism, fundamentalist Christianity, fundamentalist religion, hell, Letters from the Earth, love, musings, Reality, relationship, religion, seeking, self-help, spirituality on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mark Twain is one of the greatest authors America has ever produced. I still read and enjoy his stories, and he is still one of America’s all-time best-loved storytellers.
I first read his book “Letters from the Earth” sometime in the Sixties, and I loved it. I was just getting started in my process of recovering [...]
Remembering …
Posted in Reality, belief, love, meditation, musings, poems, poetry, relationship, religion, spirituality, tagged belief, love, poems, poetry, relationship, spirituality on May 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
April 16, 1943 – Nov. 15, 2006
Darlene
Where do we go
when the light dims
and the last sigh has faded?
Where you were
is silence,
and a void that still holds
your empty shape.
And the [...]
Rushing to Belief
Posted in Reality, belief, musings, mysticism, relationship, religion, seeking, self-help, spirituality, tagged belief, musings, mysticism, Reality, relationship, religion, seeking, self-help, spirituality on May 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My standard disclaimer applies.
The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
~ Politically correct paraphrase of a quote by J. B. S. Haldane …
A couple of days ago, while I was reading one of grizelda3’s postings & a comment on it, it came to pass that I said [...]
Really?
Posted in Reality, belief, love, musings, mysticism, poems, poetry, relationship, religion, seeking, self-help, spirituality, tagged belief, love, musings, mysticism, poems, poetry, Reality, relationship, religion, seeking, self-help, spirituality on May 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
We don’t create our own reality, but
we do create our
own interpretation of
reality, and
that interpretation influences
how we think and
act and [...]
Awakening: The Doctrine of No Doctrine
Posted in Reality, belief, musings, mysticism, relationship, religion, seeking, self-help, spirituality on May 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My standard disclaimer applies.
Sutra I: Sleep
Know ye that the path of awakening is full of snares and fraught with peril. On this path, many will see you as the enemy. Many will fear you and despise you; many will turn you from their door.
Let not your need for companionship, love of others, recognition and approval [...]
Afternoon Meditation
Posted in Reality, belief, love, meditation, musings, mysticism, relationship, religion, seeking, self-help, spirituality on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Consider a flame:
Watch the fire. See the flames licking up, beautiful in their infinite variety, reds, yellows, with other subtle colors and shades shining forth, coming, going, flickering, flaring up and fading away.
Does our flame have a soul? Was this flame born for a special purpose? Does it strive through its brief life [...]
