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I just returned from 3 weeks without TV and other needless noise…. I realized how wonderful silence can be…. Serenity, Joy and Peace are a few benefits I experienced.
Category Archives: PICTURE POEMS
Picture Poems a poems written for, and pasted on, pictures, paintings or graphic art. The poem describes or emulated the picture in verse.
YOUR VOICE ALONE
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Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. He is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century.
Beckett’s work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human existence, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour, and became increasingly minimalist in his later career. He is considered one of the last modernist writers, and one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the “Theatre of the Absurd”. Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature.
HAPPINESS IS NOT
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I have been thinking a lot about “happiness” recently. There are many different definitions of this word. In an English language dictionary defines “happiness” as:
elatedness, elation, exhilaration, exultation, high,intoxication; ecstasy, euphoria, glory, heaven, nirvana,paradise, rapture, rapturousness, ravishment, seventh heaven, transport; delectation, delight, enjoyment,pleasure; cheer, cheerfulness, comfort, exuberance,gaiety (also gayety), gladsomeness, glee, gleefulness,jocundity, jollity, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilance,jubilation, lightheartedness, merriness, mirth; content,contentedness, gratification, satisfaction, triumph.
Here are a few ideas I have about what happiness is, and what it is not….
WHAT IS ANARCHISM?
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I never studied anything about “anarchism” because I had a misconception that it had to do with advocating social chaos. I was surprised to discover that the origins and philosophy that are the foundations of this ideology are based on a deep spiritual understanding.
Chronologically the earliest anarchist themes can be found in the 6th century BC, among the works of Taoist philosopher Laozi and in later centuries by Zhuangzi and Bao Jingyan.
Zhuangzi wrote, “A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand (criminal) becomes a ruler of a Nation.”
Diogenes of Sinope (404 BCE – 323 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy.
Their contemporary Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism, also introduced similar topics.
Jesus Christ is sometimes considered the first anarchist in the Christian anarchist tradition. “The true founder of anarchy was Jesus Christ and … the first anarchist society was that of the apostles.” — Georges Lechartier
A political ideology named “collective anarchism” was created by Mikhail Bakunin (30 May 1814 – 1 July 1876). He was a Russian revolutionary anarchist, and founder of one of the many different political ideologies that are considered to be anarchism in the 19th century.
“Let us put our trust in the eternal spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unsearchable and eternally creative source of all life–the passion for destruction is also a creative passion!” — Mikhail Bakunin (Reaction in Germany, 1842)
“They [the Marxists] maintain that only a dictatorship—their dictatorship, of course—can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is: No dictatorship can have any other aim but that of self-perpetuation, and it can beget only slavery in the people tolerating it; freedom can be created only by freedom, that is, by a universal rebellion on the part of the people and free organization of the toiling masses from the bottom up.” —Mikhail Bakunin, Statism and Anarchism
FOREVER IS NOW. FOREVER IS LOVE.
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“Love is Universal among sentient beings. Love is a “subjective energy” as individually unique as a Memory of Pleasures Won and Lost in The Winds of Immortality. Love can erase the state of “separation”… the apparent distance between Beings in the physical universe. Love transcends every thought, every moment, every place, regardless of time, energy or motion. Love is the Essence of Who We Really Are… Love is ALWAYS Love… Forever, in the Eternal Now.
The past is the “fingerprint” of our Eternal Selves. We can NOT forget this…. not really. Universes erode and decay…. Beings who create these illusions in the Eternal Now get bored with the silly games of Life, Universes and Other Stuff. They drift away….
We are Eternal…. No beginning…. No end….. We are “pretending not to know”…. But, the truth is that we DO know, we have ALWAYS known, and we will ALWAYS know…. It is not possible to “hide” from Our True Selves forever…. Forever is Now.”
~ Lawrence R. Spencer. 2015. ~