“We like lists because we don't want to die.”     ~ Umberto Eco

 Advice from the ex-con writer Gregory David Roberts, author of Shantaram, to all of us in our daily prison of our own making or of COVID-19

10) NEVER GIVE UP

We have no reason or right to give up.

The generations that came before us, that we carry within us, won’t let us give up.

The generations to come are relying on us never to give up.

Our human family has a sublime capacity to endure for one another and survive, and so far, we have carried the treasures of tenderness, caring and sharing through every terrible crisis that has ever confronted us.

We human beings are empathetic cooperators: when we stand together, nothing can stand against us; we are high-functioning adaptors: we can adapt to the arctic, the desert, below the sea and outer space; and we never give up.

In the church of my heart the choir is on fire.

‘God’ seems like a rather small concept to contain the exquisitely inter-accommodative coherencies of Universe.

—	R. Buckminster Fuller, quoted in conversation by Robert Anton Wilson in Right Where You Are Sitting Now

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

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― Henry Miller