23 7 / 2011
Live thy Life,
Young and old,
Like yon oak,
Bright in spring,
Living gold;
Summer-rich
Then; and then
Autumn-changed
Soberer-hued
Gold again.
All his leaves
Fall’n at length,
Look, he stands,
Trunk and bough
Naked strength.
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson
23 7 / 2011
Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
07 5 / 2011
If you are free today, remember how many are held and will be held, perhaps for the rest of their lives.
07 5 / 2011
Dangers
There is no fire like passion,
No beast like hatred,
No trap like folly,
No deluge like greed.
— Dhammapada
06 5 / 2011
Overlooked wisdom —
Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.
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01 5 / 2011
(For Rémy)
Yet wrestling with nature, humankind
Unwittingly awaiting what distant but sinister.
01 5 / 2011
Reflexive Injury
The evil done by oneself,
self-begotten
self-bred
crushes the foolish like a diamond any another precious stone.
— Dhammapada
01 5 / 2011
Pleasure and Bliss
There is pleasure,
And there is bliss.
Forego the first
To find the second.
— Dhammapada
01 5 / 2011
Hope (Bitter Spinster)
Sweet hope is in his heart,
Nurse and companion to old age.
Hope, captain of the ever-twisting
Minds of mortal men.
— Pindar
01 1 / 2010
Decisions
happiness is an activity and a state
and, like love, a decision
(we don’t want to make)
21 8 / 2008
Underreported: Tasered
19. That’s the estimated number of times the Ozark police tasered 16-year-old Mace Hutchinson whom they found lying underneath a highway overpass with a broken back that apparently resulted from fall.
