Month: September 2014

September 8, 2014

Thoughts on Our War World

STARVING COSMOS

How can we listen to sad love songs,
When there are so many starving for love?
Who the hell do we think we are?
What rights for pity do we think we have,
When outside our doorstep,
Is a cosmos of love-starved beings?

COSMIC ANNIHILATION CREATION

We, we are the Higgs boson,
We are elusive,
Impossible to discover,
Yet everywhere.…
September 7, 2014

Reflecting on “Dancing”

I wrote this during the Gaza war. I think the theme of dance is very important, post-quantum physics way to understand the complex interaction of enemies, how they build on each other, and what it must teach us in reverse. I am amazed at how much of a dance enemies have, how much they depend on each other’s worst behaviors. We know this scientifically but it is hard to internalize as a definition of fluid reality. All our debates are as if enemies are fixed entities not evolving with each other. We warriors for peace still do not know how to really counteract that. We have tried the arts, we have tried tourism, we have tried commerce, but the dance of death is more frightening and compelling to the masses. Why did the young generation succeed in the 1960’s to create a real alternative that attracted the masses, but …
September 4, 2014

Ask

Ask why to be a child,
Ask what to be an adult.
Ask why to be confused,
Ask what for clarity.
Ask why to be passive
Ask what to be active.
Ask why to mourn,
Ask what to build.…
September 3, 2014

Defeated By Love

The sky was lit
by the splendor of the moon
So powerful
I fell to the ground
Your love
has made me sure
I am ready to forsake
this worldly life
and surrender
to the magnificence
of your Being

–Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (Poet, 1207-1273)

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September 3, 2014

Law’s Absence

The beginning of law is the expectation of everything. The beginning of gratitude is the expectation of nothing. The dance of law and gratitude is sobriety. Punishment must be delayed, in order to live.…
September 3, 2014

Perfection

No perfect partners no perfect families no perfect societies no perfect peace no perfect justice. Perfection is the enemy of happiness. Perfection is a delusion that creates misery. Perfection is the friend of isolation, anger, impatience, and disappointment. Perfection is an idol of nonexistence whose absence generates the worship of rage. Perfection obsession is a hard wired inherited habit of thinking whose offspring is alienation and depression , more so in the recipients than in the source. Gratitude is its opposite. Gratitude is its cure.

(Photo: Dr. Karen)…
September 2, 2014

Reflections, August 2014 vol.2

The stoics, the Epicurians, Taoists, Sufis, the Buddhists, all feel that the real prison is the human mind. I am still thinking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive The question now facing #Jews is how many #Palestinian lives should be sacrificed for one #Israeli soldier? 10? 100?

With children of #Syria #crdc and project Amal ou Salam

A budding #Syrian artist, generously giving his paintings away

A message of the children of #Syria

To be with victims in a time of war is to be @loss for words but not to be with them even one victim is to be @loss of your soul

#Syrians and #Turks deep in negotiations

The beginning and end of conflict prevention is gratitude. #peacebuilding

https://marcgopin.com/2014/08/23/urgent-on-syria/ please Share widely. It is essential to both save #Syria from #ISIS and to use all parties for immediate ceasefire.

http://www.haaretz.com/mobile/.premium-1.611395?v=680CA1F8707230AE49358F9E70E58220 Only by facing the death of #democracy in #Israel can you fight for …
September 2, 2014

Deus Ex Machina

Men who represent governments are not entitled to their own opinions nor do they control absolutely anything. Therefore those who are risking their lives around the world and ask government officials for their opinion are not only wasting their time, they are also putting themselves in danger. Do not make revolutions or rebellions or demonstrations based on external promises. Ever ever ever.

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September 2, 2014

A Moment

It is a special agony leaving loved ones behind who go back to war. It is a special guilt that tears at the soul.

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