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Why are people so resistant
to just being people
with/to/around other people?!

People act like
you have to be in a relationship
to have any kind of relationship
and I'm ******* sick of it.

Does anyone else see how this is absurd?
Does anyone see what the **** we're doing?
Would we even ******* care if we did?

Likely not:
we're just a bunch of ******* doppelgangers:
complacent, Orwellian, pharmacological guinea pigs
with a fear of change and betrayal so deep
that we do nothing but betray and change
so rapidly that we can't even be sure
of which alliances are genuine
and which are malign.

Why can't people just ******* be people?
Why do we feel so compelled to be alien?
Why do we prove them right?
Why can't we just BE?!

I'll tell you ******* why:
it accommodates some people's POWER
and I'll say it again
POWER
here, once more
TO GET IT IN
THROUGH OUR THICK-***, NUMB, AND EMPTY SKULLS:


**POWER
I don't know where this came from, but call it empassioned.

Just so I know, upon further review, Lucy was here.
"Should have"
and
"shouldn't have"
matter not
"right now,"
all that truly matters
is what's done
and what is.


Endure.


Learn.
Cope.
Learn.

Though,
take "should"
and "shouldn't"
into future consideration,
for that is when they shall truly matter.
One must use
both the
Left hemisphere
and the
Right hemisphere
if One wishes
to use either
**well.
I shouldn't have to say it, but:
read between the lines.
Worry not about thy Death,
worry only about thy Life:
though, seek independence from worry,
for worry is but a misuse of imagination.

Fret not for what isn't,
but rather consider what is;
what could be.

Seek to make it so.
..and I have nary a thing to say, save for this:

Be
who it is you know
in your heart that you are
and compromise the spark
which kindles your fire
for nary a Soul nor obstacle,
for, in this mortal Life,
there can be no greater Sin
than to let it all go to waste
just to soothe the pain within.

The Obstacles in Life
merely provide opportunities,
to which one can rise
or in spite of which one can fail.

But,
though it may seem a losing battle,
there is e'er a way to prevail.

Perseverance
is the sound of optimism,
in the name of betterment:
Perseverance
is the cry of mortal Warriors,
battling 'pon this battleground
rife with Life's adversity.

To the victor,
the spoils.
To the defeated,
what they deserve.

Harsh
though it may sound,
truly what you get
is relative
to your chosen
perspective, attention and intention.

If you intend
to lose the battle,
it is already lost.

If you intend
to be victorious,
nary a thing
shall stand in your way
for very long.

Heed this, please:
I speak in mythic words,
metaphor, symbology:
battle not Others
for selfish gain
or in the name of demagoguery,

rather,
battle constructively
within your Self,
that you may harden
your resolve
and become truer
to your true Self.

In such a way can you transcend this mortal World.
In such a way can you be happy and free of it's tyranny.
In such a way have others pointed to Enlightenment.
In such a way be Heaven and Hell creations of our Selves.
Not really much to say
but what I feel neen't be said,
though it seems so obvious to me I opt to share it
in hopes
it falls not
on blind eyes
deaf ears
and numb minds.
Begrudge not
they, who practice many skills;
for, if anything,
they should begrudge
they, who opt not to.

It's well worth it
to have a wide and diverse skill set
if you'd just opt to.
One,
who comprehends the Tao,
can begin to emulate the Tao,
and, thus,
must expend less mortal Energy
to attain more elevated ends.

This tends to translate
to less stress, less strife;
to more harmony and happiness:

Tao is not God
(except, perhaps, metaphorically);
Tao is merely the Way.
Tao is how and why.
Tao is because is is.
Just because
One doesn't understand
a medium
doesn't invalidate
that medium
as an Artistic or Philosophical
transmittal.

In fact, I find
much mystery, much beauty
in those unknown realms
of mediums I do not understand:

I see potential I've never even considered.
I like to think I'm not unique in this way.

Room for learning
room for growth;
so often overlooked
and misunderstood
as imperfection, flaw;
no such thing!
It is opportunity-
it is in potentiâ.
Wir haben keinen Grund,
wir haben nur Ausreden.

Wir haben keine Hoffnung,
wir haben doch Täuschung.

Es gibt weder ein Gott noch Teufel,
ausser sie, wer innerhalb uns wohnen;
wessen mittels uns entfesselt sind.

Es gibt weder Gott noch Teufel,
sie sind nur das Gute und Übel,
deren mittels uns gesät sind.
We have no Reason,
we have only Excuses.

We have no Hope,
we have but Delusion.

There is neither a God nor Devil,
except those who live within us;
that are unleashed by us.

There is neither God nor Devil,
they are but the Good and Evil
that are sewn by us.
-

Sort-of a poem, sort-of a self-directed German exercise in the passive voice and genitive case. The two, after all, are not mutually exclusive!

I hope you don't mind my linguistic exercises.

Wann jede Deutsch kann, sag mir mal ob ich Fehler gemacht habe!
Immer gefällt es mir zu verbessern!
There is an inherent discrepancy
'twixt the World in One's Mind
and the World that simply Is.

That is, however,
no intrinsically bad thing.
For, I find, that the world Within
needs the world Without,
though they inderdepend
and thus are not mutually exclusive.

There needs to be a discrepancy
for the pressures, as it were,
to have any room or excuse
to neutralize:
to move towards equilibrium;
however,
it is not linear,
nor is it parabolic:

this, I believe,
is where Calculus
becomes a valid allegory
for Life,
itself.
Thanks for reading.
Sitting with Eyes closed,
feet crossed, relaxed,
with mind and hands open;

Within the Void of the Screen
of the mental Non-stimuli,
something so curious
begins to unfold:

The Mind,
when left alone,
will construct for itself
a sort-of playground of thoughts.

These thoughts are not the Enemy;
they are indications and signals;
they are residual reverberations
of higher-dimensional activity;
that is to say, if I may,
of a higher-dimensional Entity,
the physical shell of which is Body;
unto itself a Chapel of Sacred Mirrors;
Organs, Chakras, Emotion, Reason;
a Vessel for something Greater:
Thy Godself is there.
(hiding within the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors)
The Godself is there:
(within the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors)
Allow thy Godself
to become actualized,
all else shall fall into place;
though not before it has all
fallen terribly out of place.

Thy Path implies sacrifice;
Sacrifice not thy Path.
It seizes One with Fear
and then points One in a direction,
though it is not fatal
if One finds yet motivation.

It doth render unto One
the Courage to create,
though, indeed, such Power
comes also with such potential
as to destroy without so much
as a Care.

Tread e'er with caution;
it doth come in waves.

Hey,
speaking of Waves:
please do not forget
to drink Water,
for mere magical Water
can be a sort-of cure-all
of neigh infinite mystery;
and please do not forget
to Breathe
as slowly, and with
as much reverence for the present moment
and to seek to speak as simply, yet succinctly,
as One can find possible;
for One never is to know
which Breath it shall be,
or, worse: was,
that would be One's Last.
-
To be creative
is to exercise
that inner Daemon
known to us, Jungians,
as One's very own
Shadow:
Shadow

seems keen
to reveal itself
at the most, shall we say,
opportune of Times,
though, as I find,
Opportunity, itself,
is a matter of
absolute value;
and, as such,
it can be
either
verily
creative
or
destructive,
depending
on the Will (or lack thereof)
of it's User (or lack thereof)
.
Love

is quite the Opportunity.
and quite the same is true of Life.
Joy
is quite the Opportunity,
and such is also true of Strife.

Thus, I cast this genuine penumbral Plea-
thus, I cast this penned and umbral Plea:


Please
cast thy Shadow
with the utmost and greatest Care,
lest it envelop thy Being;
usurping thy cognitive throne-

that is, as opposed to
incorporation of Shadow
via the omnitool Mirrors
of Awareness- of Mind:
thusly Shadow augments
the arsenal of One's very own Self.

Beware, though,
for the System, itself,
has it's sordid defenses.

Also, and once more,
please do not forget
to cast thy Shadow
with great Care, and
please do not forget
to cast nary a Shadow
without Self Awareness.
Written totally in the moment.
Some semicolons edited to periods, just to switch up my own punctuation, both symbolically and literally.
Thank you for reading.
"If you cannot find the Truth
exactly where you are,
where do you expect to find it?"
-Dogen

"When you are deluded and full of doubt,
a thousand books of scripture are too few.
When you have realized understanding,
even a single word is too much."
-Fen-Yang

"If you have to ask
what Jazz is,
you'll never know."
-Louis Armstrong

"The only Zen
you find atop Mountains
is the Zen you bring up there."
-Robert M. Pirsig

"When the Way comes to an end,
then change-
having changed,
you pass through."
-I Ching

"There is nothing
either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so."
-Shakespeare

"How shall I grasp it?
Do not grasp it.
That which remains
when there is no more grasping
is the Self."
-Panchadasi

"Whoever knows himself knows God."
-Mohammad

"1. Out of clutter, find simplicity.
2. From discord, find harmony.
3. Amidst difficulty lies opportunity."
-Albert Einstein

"If you meet on the way
a Man who knows,
don't say a word-
don't keep silent!"
-Zen Koan
"Be Master of Mind
rather than mastered by Mind."
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