3/24/2023

the perfidious one


 “Talented and well-practiced in every vice, a stranger to compassion or empathy, a liar and a cheat so complete in perfidy that he has elevated his dishonesty to hold it up as an ersatz moral principle, violent, so long as he can order someone else to do the dirty work, grotesque in body, graceless in action, in possession of a wounded self-regard so colossal as to smother any spark of grace, treasonous, not only to country, but to every ally he has ever had, the poisoned fruit and rankest flower of racism and contempt for women, and utterly devoid of shame for his moral and spiritual bankruptcy.
That is your leader. That is to whom you give your money. That is who you follow and laud. That is whose banner you willingly carry. Why? Because he is a mirror, not a lighthouse. You see yourselves in him. He is what you would be, if you had inherited money and could shed the last vestiges of conscience and shame.
No, I do not “respect your choices,” nor do I admire your loyalty and dedication to this miserific, demoniac vision. You have demonstrated not only a lack of civic virtue, loyalty to the Republic and to the rule of law, but a willingness to engage in violence and sedition at his slightest expressed wish. And you will never, ever admit you were wrong.
Because you see your dark, twisted, resentful dreams in him. And to renounce him is to renounce yourselves.”
~ Advocatus Peregrini
Drawing
Stable Genius by Siegfried Woldhek, pen & ink, October 12, 2019.

2/24/2023

Constant Reassurance

 


Bastiat

 


Carl Sagan

 


aware


 

If I am aware of the nature and movement of my reactions, then naturally that awareness will result in freedom from the reactions.... If I am aware, simultaneously of the objective challenge, the subjective reactions, and the causes of those reactions, then it results in freedom. Then the momentum of reaction will not carry me over with it, but I will be ahead of the reactions; I will not be a victim of my reactions, but I will see them as I see the objective challenge. That for me is meditation. All-inclusive attention while moving in life.”

                                                                                                                ~ Vimala Thakar

2/17/2023

WE are

 


9 Signs


 

 Atacama Giant; a giant geoglyph on Cerro Unitas in Atacama Desert, Chile.

It is one largest prehistoric geoglyph figures in the world with length of 119m; likely created sometime between 1000-1400 CE by successive series of indigenous cultures including Inca.



1/30/2023

Rumi poem

  

The Guest House


This being human is a guest house.

Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,

some momentary awareness comes

as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!

Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,

who violently sweep your house

empty of its furniture,

still, treat each guest honorably.

S/He may be clearing you out

for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,

meet them at the door laughing,and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,

because each has been sent

as a guide from beyond.


~ Rumi