Pain

Peter on March 10th, 2011

If you feel hatred, feel the anger that powers it.
If you feel anger, feel the fear that motivates it.
If you feel fear, feel the pain that underlies it.
If you feel pain, heal the part of you that feels it.

Pain is the crucible in which all suffering is smelted
Extinguish the fires that bring pain to boil
And [...]

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Peter on March 9th, 2011

When I choose to live in my fear, my anger, my hate
I see the world through eyes that fear
I hear the song of anger in every note
I taste hatred as if all sustenance were the bitterest root

In my mind
I place the world of power, control and duplicity
Above the world of beauty, compassion and love
So that [...]

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Peter on February 4th, 2011

It has been said:

There’s always a little truth behind every “Just kidding”;
A little knowledge behind every: “I don’t know”;
A little emotion behind every: “I don’t care” and
A little pain behind every “It’s okay.”

This is true. Often, there is rather a lot. But it’s also true that,

There is always a little love in every smile;
A little [...]

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Peter on May 25th, 2009

Some random thoughts on truth and being true…
I no longer put much stock in "the truth". That phrase predisposes us to notions of an objective reality (one that exists without imagination , one that is permanent, unchanging, eternal. Truth is a fiction established as fact through reason.
On the other hand, i put all my [...]

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Peter on April 10th, 2009

Summers in New Hampshire provide a teenager with blissfully warm weather and an abundance of distractions from the boredom that seems to accompany the day-to-day existence of the young.
There were the streams in which I’d fish for trout, and the marinas filled with pickerel, and Weirs Beach with its small mouth bass. My [...]

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