The best of opportunities are not without the greatest of compromises.
The peaceful heart can find stillness amidst the chaos, can be at ease in the face of difficulty, is a home unto itself wherever it goes.
Balance cannot be found at the extremes, but is always found by returning to the core, by finding the center. Where balance can be found with outstretched limb, stronger still the core must remain.
《the way》
dear little one,
the world is yours.
the world was yours
even before you belonged
to it.
it was, is, and will be
your redemption as often
as it will be your nemesis.
do not be afraid, for fear
will not carry your burdens
nor will it shelter you
from the elements.
have hope as much as will
allow triumph
over the ills of present,
but none so much that
you deceive yourself
of the realities of the future
or the consequences of the past.
days of sorrow will weave
a tight knit alongside joy,
neither with warning
nor with limitation.
you shall persist because
you know of nothing else,
not only because you will it.
for as a mortal, possibility
is as finite only as is time.
what tomorrow will bring you,
yesterday has already taken
away, with a fluidity that
surprises with subtlety.
you will love and hurt,
feel pain and transfer pain.
you will always forgive
because the alternative
is no alternative.
fairness and justice
will oft be at odds
with one another and for you.
you will not always deserve
your destiny, but you will
decide not to deny it.
for tonight, the sun sets low,
but tomorrow, high,
high shall the sun rise up.
oh, little one, until tomorrow,
good night.
A fish out of water is the first to evolve.
I’d rather that you are loyal to the truth, than to me. For I will change, and you may not change with me. But if I am loyal to the truth, and also are you loyal, then always will I find your loyalty near.
A half truth is a whole falsity.
There is a war between the ego and the superego that started before time itself.
If you cannot do it right, is doing it wrong better than delaying doing it or simply not doing it?
Only in the midst of hardship, does our true character.
The fool fail to see the light -lo, they are blind even to the darkness that envelops them.
Light is born in the darkness, though it is not of the darkness.
One minute, the fool in darkness; the next minute, the wise enlightened.
The fool are not below wisdom, the wise are not above foolery.
Judge only those with whom you can empathize.
Tomorrow will not feed the hunger of today.
Worry only of today’s hunger, and tomorrow will feed itself.
If one follows their gut, they will always have guts.
When information is framed, only education is tied, only knowledge sentenced, only wisdom slain.
Excuse befits the guilty; truth befits the innocent.
Hold a man to his capacity to err, and he will fail; hold the same man to his level of ability, and he will succeed.
When the Future quarrels with the Present, only the Past has the last word.
Complaining differs from venting, in that, it is with ability and without action to resolve the matter.
To be a friend, one must not lend a shoulder to lighten the burden, only lend an ear to lessen the brooding.
An omelette is not made by wishing for eggs.
Brilliant words only after brilliant eyes and brilliant ears.
《the night》
the night is a fickle lover
longing and lingering and
leaving me to morn.
《couth》
If one articulates
In triplets, would you say
one is high couth?
Short words are always long on feeling.
The art of accepting a compliment is humble denial.
A fool lavishes flattery, the wise bestow compliments.
One’s words are like stones, to be thrown at another or used to build another up.
One’s energy blows like the wind, destructively against a wall or constructively against a windmill.
A windmill rolls with the wind, not against it, and so exploits false opposition to gain true momentum.
Only with friction, does anything gain traction.
《on walls》
May any border, any wall constructed, be made with deliberation and great skill, such that when at last we soften to the wisdom of history and realize the foolishness that is cemented with each mortaring of every brick, we may retain and also preserve a symbol of foolishness overcome, to remind us that a wall should not divide two peoples, but span the divide -so as to join them.
Not only in times of despair must we have hope, but also in times of progress must we resist regression.
A teacher is first and always a student, only then a teacher.
Who looks inwardly hasn’t the time to point outwardly.
Avenging breeds only revenge.
The loudest bird is not always the best mate.
Flashy is fleeting.
Change from without comes from the core within.
The assassin creates a martyr where before stood merely a mortal.
War in the name of peace is to starve in the the name of nutrition.
Defense that strikes offense has reunited with lost kin.
《until the night》
Where by day Johnny went, where by day Johnny trusted;
always once or more, be it twice or even thrice.
Until the day was done, the night had barely come
and Johnny trusted not ’til morn.
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