“Handcrafted Humanity Sonnet 12
Here are some words born of narrowness,
Activist, woke, religious, atheist,
Socialist, communist, capitalist, conservative,
Intellectual, intelligent, classy, elitist,
Educated, learned, well-versed, sound-mind,
Traditional, old-fashioned, spiritual, altruistic,
Empiricist, Existentialist, rationalist, freethinker,
Godly, compassionate, selfless and mystic.
I refuse to be defined by any of them,
None of them can explain my true sentiment.
I may advocate for the good within each of them,
But I refuse to give any of them exclusive endorsement.
All these words are too puny to define my identity.
My name is human, my heart contains entire humanity.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“We stray the narrow way when we stubbornly refuse to discipline ourselves physically, morally, and mentally.”
“A sense of humor is essentially a sense of perspective. It is an understanding that comes from a true sense of proportion. Humor is not a matter of laughing at things, but of understanding them. At its highest it is a part of understanding life. It is an ability to see ourselves as we are, and to smile at the comic figure that the biggest of us cuts in strutting across life's stage.”
Source: Unprofitable servants: Conferences on humility
“To know your mind,
you need a little distance.
You need to be a step or two away
and be able to notice
what your mind is doing
without being so lost or involved in it
that you can’t see it.
It’s like trying to see your eyes.
If you want to see yourself,
you need to create some space,
you need a mirror.
Stillness, mindfulness, meditation:
these are the mirrors.”
Source: Legacy
“So sweet is this song that no one could resist it. For in it is all the passionate ache for the moonlight, and the great hunger of the sea, and the terror of desolate places,—all things that lure men to the unattainable.
Omari tessala marax,
tessala dodi phornepax
amri radara poliax
armana piliu
amri radara piliu son;
mari narya barbiton
madara anaphax sarpedon
andala hriliu
Translation:
I am the harlot that shaketh Death.
This shaking giveth the Peace of Satiate Lust.
Immortality jetteth from my skull,
And music from my vulva.
Immortality jetteth from my vulva also,
For my Whoredom is a sweet scent like a seven-stringed instrument,
Played unto God the Invisible, the all-ruler,
That goeth along giving the shrill scream of orgasm.
Every man that hath seen me forgetteth me never, and I appear oftentimes in the coals of the fire, and upon the smooth white skin of woman, and in the constancy of the waterfall, and in the emptiness of deserts and marshes, and upon great cliffs that look seaward; and in many strange places, where men seek me not. And many thousand times he beholdeth me not. And at last I smite myself into him as a vision smiteth into a stone, and whom I call must follow.”
Source: The Vision and the Voice: With Commentary and Other Papers
“This, I suppose, makes me such a sauce-box, and bold-face, and a creature, and all because I won't be a sauce-box and bold-face indeed.”
Source: Pamela
“The Harlots cry from Street to Street
Shall weave Old Englands winding Sheet
The Winners Shout the Losers Curse
Dance before dead Englands Hearse”
Source: Auguries of Innocence
“Throughout 2020, before vaccines were available, 99.9 percent of people's natural immune systems protected their owners from severe illness and death. The CDC and World Health Organization, indeed all global health authorities, have recognized that healthy people, with healthy immune systems, bear minimal risk from COVID. Indeed, many people, according to our health authorities, have an immune response sufficient that they don't even know they have COVID.
Maloy's pronouncement hat humans cannot fight off COVID-19 without a vaccine is misinformation in its purest form.”
Source: The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
“Man was not truly seeking liberation
All the time, he was trying to become immortal.
The idea of liberation — mokṣa or nirvāṇa
is often misunderstood, because it implies the complete dissolution of the individual self.
If liberation of the self were the only goal,
a single mantra would have been enough.
Then why did we develop
sophisticated mantras, yantras, and tantras?
Why yoga, āsanas, meditation,
disciplined living, and eating healthy?
These were not created to dissolve life,
but to sustain it.
Everything was designed
to preserve energy, refine the body,
and extend life to live here,
consciously, in the physical body.
The real pursuit was not liberation,
but to endure life and become immortal”
Source: Be the Best Version of Yourself: Words of Wisdom to Transform Your Life
“I sort of thought that maybe people had to talk that way, sort of saying the same things over and over because that way they can get along together without thinking." She stopped and thought. Why I was so worried,” she said, “was because if people didn't say those damn things over and over, then they wouldn't talk to each other at all.”
Source: Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories