Thank Heaven I don't have my friends problems.  But sometimes, I tell you, I notice an expression on one of their faces that I recognize as gratitude.

Before execution and elimination, I propose these tortures for the inhumane SOB Xxxxxx Xxxx and white supremacist shooters for being the HUMAN WASTE of the world.

IF THEY ARE MEDIEVAL, THEY MUST HAVE MEDIEVAL!

Christchurch, New Zealand

Shams of Tabriz’s 
40 Rules of Love

Rule 7

Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! It is easy to be thankful when all is well. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that he has been denied.

Be the Art you wish to make

What keeps you up at night?

I recall a conversation I once heard on a talk show many years ago.  It was Dick Cavett Show.  He had three nuclear scientists on the show discussing the awful state of nuclear proliferation.  What is your greatest fear, Cavett asked the scientists.  The first scientist responded without hesitation: "Thermonuclear war, without a doubt."   "Yes," the second scientist joined in agreement.  The third scientist sitting to the far left from Cavett appeared sheepish and remained silent.  When pushed for a response the scientist confessed: "My esteemed colleagues are entirely justified to be fearful of thermonuclear war.  But the thing that I fear most of all," he said as he began to break up, is not being loved."

“Genesis does not stop, your god continues creating you.”

— Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

Whoever uses the spirit that is

in him creatively is an artist. To

make living itself an art, that is the goal

.

 

― Henry Miller

Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more.
And we also once, Never again. But this having been
once, although only once, to have been of the earth,
seems irrevocable.

Neither childhood nor future

grows less...surplus of existence

welling up in my heart.

Rainer Marie Rilke

The Ninth Elegy

Duino Elegies

To succeed [,] consider what is as though it were past, deem yourself inevitable and take credit for it. If you no longer believe, enlarge the temple.

W. S. Merwin

I have with me all that I do not know.  I have lost none of it.

W. S. Merwin

Was Is

Was = is

What was

is.

What wasn't

never was

(and isn't).

The friend that isn't

wasn't.

Everything, everything

happens at the same time

and that time is now.

Always.

Rather than hold his hands properly

arched off the keys, like cats

with their backs up,

Monk, playing block chords,

hit the keys with his fingertips well

above his wrists,

shoulders up, wrists down

Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane 

at Carnegie Hall,1957

You can be a genius and be sane.