Monday, August 31, 2015

Do they know not what they do....

First they say it is the right thing to do

For the good of humanity and

In the name of humanity...

They use every excuse to do

what they have been wanting to do...

Then, as the people are moved by their humanity

In witnessing the gruesome nature of those acts

Some begin to say it was the wrong thing to do,

Saying, we in the first place should not have meddled

Then they go on saying....

It has become a problem and headache

Which we must and should deal with (obviously)

For the good of humanity, and

Then they continue doing...

What they always wanted to do.

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Identities....

Any entrenched identity is

An unbreachable irrationality.


All rational identities are distinct and universal 

In essence they are homosapien and 

One and the same.


Thursday, August 13, 2015

Quote of the day ..."Spiritual Freedom".........

I call the mind free which jealously guards

its intellectual rights and powers,


which calls no man master,

which does not content itself

with a passive or hereditary faith...


-- William Ellery Channing(1780-1842)

Source: Spiritual Freedom, 1830

Tuesday, August 04, 2015

To Care....

It is not easy to care for others

It calls for true compassion that 

which is free from any attachment

and is a quality of one's humanity.


Indeed it is very difficult 

to truly care for others...

Even the best among us either pretend or

unknowingly believe that 

they truly care for others. 

Monday, July 20, 2015

Quote of the day.....

If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit 

all he has for Peace sake, to him 

who will lay violent hands upon it, 

I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace 

there will be in the World, 

which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and 

which is to be maintained only for 

the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.

-- John Locke
(1632-1704) English philosopher and political theorist. 
Source: Second Treatise of Civil Government [1690]

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"You can’t, in sound morals,

condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity.

It is his clear duty.

-- Joseph Conrad
(1857-1924)

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

To respect Others....

One that had no respect for other's faith or tradition

Has very little respect for any faith or tradition.

Thursday, July 02, 2015

Quote of the day....

We, the famished, ragged ragamuffins of

the East are to win freedom for all humanity!

We have no word for 'nation' in our language.

-- Vishwa kavi Rabindranath Tagore.
Nobel laureate.
His reflections on pre-independence India's
 contribution to the first world war.

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Author of the greatest anti-war poem in the

English language, Dulce et Decorum Est.

The great British poet Wilfred Owen

was to return to the front to give his life

in the futile First World War, he recited

Tagore's Parting Words to his mother

as his last goodbye.

When he was so tragically and pointlessly killed,

Owen's mother found Tagore's poem copied out

in her son's hand in his diary:


When I go from hence

let this be my parting word,

that what I have seen is unsurpassable.

I have tasted of the hidden honey of this lotus

that expands on the ocean of light,

and thus am I blessed

---let this be my parting word.

In this playhouse of infinite forms

I have had my play and

here have I caught sight of him that is formless.

My whole body and my limbs

have thrilled with his touch who is beyond touch;

and if the end comes here, let it come

- let this be my parting word.

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Monday, June 22, 2015

Quote of the day....

Absolute, arbitrary power

over the lives, liberty and property

of freemen exists nowhere in a republic,

not even in the largest majority.

-- Kentucky Declaration of Rights - Art. I, Sec. 2
also found in the Wyoming Declaration of Rights Art. I, Sec. 7

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Quote of the day..

Ever since the beginning of modern science, 

the best minds have recognized that 

"the range of acknowledged ignorance will 

grow with the advance of science." 

Unfortunately, the popular effect of 

this scientific advance has been a belief, 

seemingly shared by many scientists,that

the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and

that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and 

deliberate control of all human activities. 

It is for this reason that those intoxicated by 

the advance of knowledge so often become 

the enemies of freedom."

-- Friedrich August von Hayek
(1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974

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"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes."

-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(1729-1781) German Dramatist

Quote of the day..........

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy:

it assumes its own correctness.

-- Walter Bagehot.
(1826-1877)

Towards a Right action....

Lacking in any kind of principle is 

One's inability to define oneself.

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Self identity...........

Say religion,faith,and one's identity etc

is not defined by inheritance, 

or even  by a tradition, where 

All life forms are one and the same.


It is in one's conscious efforts and 

becoming aware of the self that which is 

in constant realization, One gets to 

define one's identity....


Where one's identity is nothing but 

To be responsible for Who one is 

To begin with.

Monday, June 08, 2015

To know / Who are You....?

The most enlightened revelation 

One can ever have is to know 

the nature of one's imperfections.

Monday, June 01, 2015

Quote of the day.....

On May 25th, 2012, Biden spoke to families of 

fallen soldiers and described the appeal of suicide.

"I probably shouldn’t say this with the press here,

" Biden said, "but no, but it’s more important, 

you’re more important. 

Just when you think, 

‘Maybe I’m going to make it,’ 

you’re riding down the road and 

you pass a field, and 

you see a flower and it reminds you. 

Or you hear a tune on the radio. 

Or you just look up in the night. 

You know, you think, 

‘Maybe I’m not going to make it, man.'

For the first time in my life, 

I understood how someone could 

consciously decide to commit suicide. 

Not because they were deranged, 

not because they were nuts, because 

they had been to the top of the mountain, and 

they just knew in their heart 

they would never get there again."

-- Joe Biden.

47th Vice president of United States.

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Quote of the day.....

People want it. People can get it.

We live in a capitalistic democratic society,

So we get what we want.

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To Will......

To will that is most enduring and fruitful..

Is to know the true nature of one's imperfections.
     

Navigating the present...

The present moment is ever present in its movement,

Hence there is no circumventing it.

Sunday, May 17, 2015

Confession / clarification.........

Confession/clarification is one of the cleansing process of 

Inner thought ( self) and actions of a person :

A choice there remains is how one chooses to address it, 

Not a mear ( insignificant/simple /indifferent) 

manipulation of  the conscious self,  

that leads one to be delusional with distortions of reality, 

where one is lost even more in to 

The trappings of falsehood 

But, is a journey to regain one's innocence

that is humble and vulnerable.

An undoing, where nothing is left for imagination... 

And  with out such cleansing

There is neither transcendence nor 

Evolution of the self.

Friday, May 15, 2015

Acts...

Albeit with all the good intentions and to do good 

and serve the fellow human beings ,

One had indeed done nothing , except to be thankful 

for being in such privileged position and 

Yet to face the absurdity of the fact that 

One is indeed in no less need of salvation and

As such there is neither virtue or vice  

in those contrasting lives, 

The server and the served,while both are not free 

Of their respective bondage (miseries), 

where in the possibility or a potential for 

any true meaning lies only 

when life is made free of such ( conditional )

banalities of existence. 

In Faith............/ Stalker...

In faith one is Always alone.

-Stalker