Violence
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 [...]
It is through our perception of this realm of manifestation
And our will to reason about all we perceive
That we learn to believe in opposites.
Beauty & Ugliness
Love & Hatred
Good & Evil
Only words.
Only names for the unnameable.
The concepts they speak of,
Only manifestations of the eternally real.
By believing these words speak the final truth
We make their manifestations real.
We [...]
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.
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