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A School of Truth
The world is full of empty headed fools — their courses set by half truths and whole lies — who trust their leaders, and obey the rules, and bow to every bright new flag that flies. To cry “Alas!” that … Continue reading
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Tagged crowds, education, hypocrisy, individuality, majorities, mass media, schools, self-discovery, truth, wholeness
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A Pathless Land
I have not found the answers seeking truth, nor even formed the questions halfway right; the mysteries that tempted me in youth are still in shrouded mists hidden from sight. The path under my feet begins and ends a single … Continue reading
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Tagged discovery, individuality, isolation, Jiddu Krishnamurti, journeys, truth
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Stirring the Pot, Part 2
As if the little things were not enough: those trivialities that chafe and burn like tinder when it’s dried and raspy rough, that seem so insignificant you spurn the notion that beyond them is the truth. It’s just that they … Continue reading
Building Around a Thing
“I know it when I see it,” said the man who vainly tried conveying truth to friends. “When it is absent, the space that it leaves unfilled describes it clearly, end to end; and though there are no words to … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, Buckminister Fuller, communication, conversations, failure, misinterpretation, truth
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Untitled: a lai
How many heartfelt vows have crossed my lips now, broken by wrongs I allow and the petty rows spoken with swords forged from plows, seeking sacred cow’s tokens in the dark days since the first subtle hints were seen of … Continue reading
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Tagged daily poems, honesty, insight, lai, poetic forms, truth, vows
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Hearsay
If they should tell you all the world is full of evil, and there’s nothing without sin, that life’s bitter extent is but a test to grind away transgression from the heart, the better to prepare your way elsewhere, or … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, daily poems, evil, gossip, hearsay, ignorance, proselytizing, salvation, sonnet, spirituality, truth
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Like the World Does Not Know
If all the world would find you lacking grace and see in every thought and act some fault, behind the smile that lights up your sweet face discovering some dark and bitter vault, if some belittle and would treat you … Continue reading
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Tagged admiration, belief, faith, love, pride, respect, self-respect, truth
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