Helpless in our anger
Courage borne of anger
Delivers none from sorrow.
Anger begets violence
Upon body, mind and spirit.
Violence begets harm.
Harm begets sorrow.
On victim and
Instigator alike.
Ever so, this cycle of suffering,
Helpless in our anger.
Intelligence & Wisdom
Trust the intelligence of the body
Over the intelligence of the mind.
The master learns more
In a mile of walking
Than an hour of reading.
Foster wisdom of the intellect
With study and discourse.
Foster wisdom of the body
With nourishment and exercise.
Questions Answers Words
The spiritual quest begins
With simple questions:
Who…?
What…?
How…?
Why…?
The quest leads always
To one simple answer:
While answers can be known,
They cannot be put into words.
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Staci’s poem, Be Silent ~ Be True ~ Just Be put this song into my head, where it stuck, begging a journey to YouTube while fiddling with internet tasks. In a long list of renditions there, this recording stood out. It’s quieter than the original studio recording, purer, with just the two voices and Paul [...]
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Be Silent ~ Be True ~ Just Be
Vestiges of a manifest self,
Long forgotten,
Writes words
Better left
Unsaid.
Some truths are better left untold,
Or risk obscuring the true
That cannot be told.
True is an act of being
Not telling.
So I remind the vestigial self,
”Be silent.”
Be silent
Be true
Just be.
I commented on a post that I’d post this song.
I’ve been holding onto it, because there are a number of other connotations for it — one of those is a woman, one woman in particular, a soul-mate. But I’m not ready to tell that story, or is it the story that’s not ready to [...]
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