Oh God
If there is a God
Oh God if there isn't.

Oh God if my heart was to brake
Oh God if it didn’t.

Oh God when the weather is cold
Oh God if it’s hot.

Oh God
If you're listening to me
Oh God if you’re not.

The key to respect can be hard to find but vision tolerance and dexterity can unlock the door to unity

Introversion is a state of a mind.
Introversion is freedom from expectations.
Introversion is taking chances and deeply thinking about life.
Introversion is respecting people's boundaries and being overly polite.
Introversion is getting close to people in short amount of time by being real with them.
Introversion is making people comfortable in your presence by valuing their thoughts.
Introversion is not a phase just because the movies want you to believe something is wrong with you doesn't mean there actually is.

Trust the process. Whatever is happening (good/bad) ,trust your life:
It is not easy to trust the happenings and events of life when nothing is in our favor. And it isn’t easy either to be optimistic about it. But that’s where our toughness and resilience is being tested. People who can’t trust the process of their lives cannot expect to excel in their lives. It is not that we should blindly trust everything that happens and not change the course of life for the better. What I mean is that we should work out what’s in our control and if we can’t work out what isn’t, then leave it. Don’t ponder upon it and don’t waste time on it. It will work out with your persistence and hard work.

Seeking the answers
By questions raised within
A true master doesn't find answers
He simply looses the questions

Search for answers
Not where words are spoken
In Silence lies the solution
Knowledge gained without a word spoken

Angry at another
Hurting none but your inner
Drinking poison hoping
The other person will cease living

Path with problems
Nothing to be concerned
Obstacles obstructing notion
Obstacles is the path in motion

Never stop learning
Accumulation of knowledge
Let go of the learning
Living in Wisdom

Knowing is not enough
Doing it is tough
Knowing and not doing
Is the same as not knowing

A candle can light
Many other candles
Its life not shortened
By sharing the light

See it as it is
Observe it the same
Let go without any blame
Light life's flame

There's nothing now
There's nothing to know
To know there is nothing
Takes the longest time within

The miracle –
To see, to feel, to touch, to hear, to smell
To be
To know I’m me.

A miracle repeated centillions of times over:
From the tiniest bug to the tallest tree.
So many sentient beings
Brimming with thoughts and feelings
Powerful emotion
And boundless imagination.

Evolution is but a continuation
From some timeless beginning
That could have created time itself.

Particles still wink in and out of existence –
Endless miracles beyond our vision.
All animals are just like us,
Seeing, feeling, thinking, wondering.

We take all this for granted
Rushing about
With our petty concerns –
Seldom taking the time
To stop
And look
At the sheer wonder
That is
Now.

Paul Butters

© PB 11\7\2021.

When people annoy me with their
constant complaining or their
non stop arguing, or even worse,
their illogical demands:
"For the last time, you can't buy
***** with food stamps."  Or,
"There is no way a crow took the
rent money out of your hands and
flew off with it."

What I do is close my eyes and
pretend they're squirrels chattering
in squirrel language.  
Then they don't bother me so much.
I just want to reach out and pet them,
or give them a handful of nuts.
It's not hard; half of them look
like squirrels anyway.

happiness is fleeting
sadness can be deep
whereas peace lasts