CXXXV
If you
cannot approach something with an open mind,
Your
conclusion cannot help but be tainted
By your
conditioned persuasion.
* * * *
Grok
the day.
* * * *
Just
seeing if you have anything
I
desperately don’t need.
* * * *
We are
each transfixed by that
To
which we are most attracted.
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The
human species is far more frightening
Than
any other life forms in the know universe.
There
is nothing we will not destroy
If it
suits our purpose.
* * * *
Another
material ghost wanders by.
* * * *
The
eternal now
Is the
commonality of all existence.
* * * *
Do you
really need to be know
By any
other once you know your Self?
* * * *
What
doesn’t kill you now
Will
have another chance later.
* * * *
If not
for consciousness,
What
would,
What
could matter?
* * * *
There
are no winners and losers,
Only
life and death.
* * * *
Sometimes
it’s best not to tell others
What’s
going on in your head.
* * * *
So many
words,
So many
equations,
So many
symbols,
So many
things,
Time
creates,
Time erases.
* * * *
Life
flies by so slowly, so quickly.
* * * *
Sorrow
gives time great pause.
* * * *
Don’t
quake at pennies.
* * * *
Journey
prior to your origin
* * * *
Be a
light unto thy Self.
* * * *
God is
the absentee landlord,
Jesus
the absentee savior.
* * * *
So I’m
supposed to be attached
To what
you think of this bag of bones?
* * * *
Yeah,
right.
* * * *
Serve
the dream in whatever way your nature bends.
* * * *
Nothing
will ever be exactly what you expect.
Free
yourself of expectation and hope
And
life will be one surprise after another.
* * * *
God
should beg your forgiveness.
* * * *
More
mumbo jumbo.
* * * *
The
jolly front.
* * * *
Are you
god to a microbe?
* * * *
What
foolish things we do.
* * * *
Insurmountable.
* * * *
What a
tiring piece of work.
* * * *
Why
fear such a pitiful god?
* * * *
What
makes you believe
Your
Jesus would want anything to do
With
you or your world?
* * * *
Wake
up, sweet demon.
* * * *
What
greater role than to be an eye of godness?
* * * *
Talent’s
talent.
* * * *
A
general sense of harmlessness
Just
sort of happens.
* * * *
It’s
the shit of cotton candy.
* * * *
You
never know what hoaxes time will play.
* * * *
Water
has no enemies yet conquers all.
* * * *
Thanking
you in advance.
* * * *
A world
recovering from the life it has spawned.
* * * *
To go
to the meat of the matter
Is to
wash away all hesitation.
* * * *
Let the
infestation have its way.
* * * *
Yes,
maybe, no.
* * * *
Forget
it all and it’s free energy.
* * * *
What a
lonely task.
* * * *
The
truth is beneath all surfaces.
* * * *
Some
ventures should be quickly dismantled.
* * * *
You are
the answer to all questions.
* * * *
Sometimes
it takes a long time
To
discern the pattern underlying all.
* * * *
The
root of all evil is a busy mind.
* * * *
Too
small to count for much.
Too
huge to mean anything.
* * * *
Toss
away the security blanket,
And
what do you have?
* * * *
Create
an unlimited question
And you
find an unlimited answer.
* * * *
The
logic that god created man in his own image
Is just
too surreal and vain to even consider.
Why
would god be restricted to any form?
* * * *
Original
sin?
Or
original vanity?
* * * *
Nobody’s
hero.
* * * *
To hell
with world peace.
Peace
would be too boring
For
most humans to maintain
For
more than half a day.
* * * *
Another
master of the little picture,
A bean
counter a la supreme.
* * * *
Jesus
is jus another drug.
* * * *
Amazing
what stupidity arises from a little intelligence.
* * * *
Hell is
an invention of those who fear their imagination,
And in
so doing make themselves unworthy of heaven.
* * * *
From a
garden of weeds come few flowers.
* * * *
There’s
no limit to what the irrational will rationalize.
* * * *
What
point to Eden without a witness.
* * * *
Those
who have more than they need
Must
take some care of those who do not,
Or risk
losing everything, including their heads.
* * * *
Mother
Nature is without pity or remorse.
* * * *
Oblivion
trumps all heavens, all hells.
* * * *
Only
the beautiful know love.
* * * *
It’s a
gift.
* * * *
Nothing
more serene than an unscripted day.
* * * *
American
spiritual practitioners sit by the river
With a
fishing pole in one hand and beer in the other.
* * * *
Another
a priori zips into place.
* * * *
Astonishing,
eh what?
* * * *
A
bridge to sanity.
* * * *
Always
pushing on, aren’t we?
* * * *
Some
parents cause more bother
By
constantly yelling at their children
Than
their children ever will.
* * * *
Vision
takes you beyond
The smallness
of your world
Into
the vastness prior to all creation.
* * * *
No one
can be sure what it means.
* * * *
You
describe a god a lot like you.
* * * *
What
peace it brings
To see
beyond the pettiness.
* * * *
Do you
think in one crippled manner or another?
* * * *
A born
again agnostic.
* * * *
One
wonders what Christians
Would
be wearing around their pious necks
If
Jesus had been killed by a noose,
Electric
chair, bullet, guillotine,
Rock or
a plastic bag.
* * * *
The
hourglass is running, my fine pretty.
* * * *
The
things you shall never know.
* * * *
You
play your role immaculately.
* * * *
Time
for a nap.
Yay oh
yay oh yay.
* * * *
The
only thing you really have is right now,
And
even that slips away so quickly
In the
foggy morass of time.
* * * *
Too
many drugs, too often,
In too
great an amount
Is
probably not a good thing.
* * * *
What
happened to you?
* * * *
Another
nostalgic memory.
* * * *
Don’t
get sucked into drama.
* * * *
You
can’t fix anyone
Without
their vigorous participation.
* * * *
Don’t
hesitate to enforce consequences,
But do
it in a somewhat detached manner
If you
don’t want to exacerbate the situation.
* * * *
Through
the eyes of infinity.
* * * *
Let the
process have it.
* * * *
Once
upon a time you thought like that.
* * * *
No time
for silence.
* * * *
The
irony trail.
* * * *
Keep
your big picture clear
And
your details manageable.
* * * *
Most
people don’t even see their lie.
* * * *
Crazy
only to them who don’t see.
* * * *
Consciousness
spans a vast relativity.
* * * *
So you
think you’re normal?
* * * *
Who
wanders completely aloof?
* * * *
Get a
job, Buddha.
* * * *
Is life
any less brief than a flash of lightening?
* * * *
Nice
fantasy,
But
otherwise useless.
* * * *
End the
becoming.
Be here
now.
What
will be will be.
* * * *
Peer
into the madness of a mystic’s eye
And you
will see your Self.
* * * *
Who
isn’t at least a bit loco?
* * * *
Still
looking for that niche?
* * * *
Does it
really matter how silly it all seems?
We
still play it out as best we may.
* * * *
Courage
is as courage does.
* * * *
Those
who are aware make room for others.
They
play win-win whenever possible.
* * * *
A
worthy challenge.
* * * *
Some
are leaders, some are followers,
Some
play the role the moment intuits.
* * * *
What is
it you know but an arbitrary collusion?
* * * *
Be it
bitter or sweet, all things pass
From
one moment to the next.
* * * *
To stay
the same is impossible.
You
will change forever.
* * * *
How
fatiguing to always be justifying one’s worth,
To be
measured by one fraction or another
For
every inane reason imaginable.
That it
will someday be over
Is a
pleasant thought.
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The Stillness Before Time (Compendium)
© Michael J. Holshouser 2009
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