Quote of the day.....

Integrity has no need of rules.

-- Albert Camus
(1913-1960) French Algerian author

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It is the first responsibility of 

every citizen to question authority.

-- Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790) US Founding Father

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Laws control the lesser man. 

Right conduct controls the greater one.

-- Chinese Proverb

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

The simple step of a courageous individual

is not to take part in the lie.

One word of truth outweighs the world.

-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
(1918-2008) Nobel Prize for Literature, 1970

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

Much more is needed. 

At least as important is that 

( THE PERSON DESIGNATED) 

the criminal must be debased. 

He must be seen to suffer not just from 

a deprivation of liberty, but also to be 

emotionally, psychologically, mentally anguished. 

The punishment can’t just physically 

restrain his body, but 

must inflict suffering in his mind, 

on the deepest level of his soul.

-- Glenn Greenwald.

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The prosecutor-dictated plea bargain system, 

by creating such inordinate pressures to 

enter into plea bargains, 

appears to have led a significant number of 

defendants to plead guilty to crimes 

they never actually committed.

---Judge Jed S. Rakoff.

Privacy.......

privacy is the cornerstone of freedom and Liberty 

Though may not be private,

Yet it is the grace and essence of human self

In its interaction with the very nature of existence.

What is... and Will be.....and A homage to The chambered nautilus....

In time space continuum what has been.... 

( neither intelligence nor experience) 

is not same in the present ...

nor It will be in future 

even in similarities / parallels. 

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                         A Homage to..

    The Chambered Nautilus

This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,

Sails the unshadowed main,— 

The venturous bark that flings

On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings

In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,

And coral reefs lie bare,

Where the cold sea-maids rise 

to sun their streaming hair.


Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl;

Wrecked is the ship of pearl!

And every chambered cell,

Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell,

As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell,  

Before thee lies revealed,—

Its irised ceiling rent, 

its sunless crypt unsealed!


Year after year beheld the silent toil

That spread his lustrous coil;

Still, as the spiral grew,

He left the past year’s dwelling for the new,

Stole with soft step its shining archway through,

Built up its idle door,

Stretched in his last-found home, 

and knew the old no more.


Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,
   
Child of the wandering sea,

Cast from her lap, forlorn!

From thy dead lips a clearer note is born

Than ever Triton blew from wreathèd horn!

While on mine ear it rings,

Through the deep caves of thought 

I hear a voice that sings:


Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,

As the swift seasons roll!

Leave thy low-vaulted past!

Let each new temple, nobler than the last,

Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,

Till thou at length art free,

Leaving thine outgrown shell by 

life’s unresting sea!

--By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Easter and in Rememberence of PassOver......

In a shadowy corner of the self

In each one of us, there resides

An infomer who aids in self preservation

and in one's insecurities. Albeit

An informer is not only inauthentic

but also is the one that lends oneself

to distortion of truth ,adding to chaos.

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

Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are,

That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,

How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,

Your looped and windowed raggedness, 

defend you From seasons such as these? 

Oh, I have ta'en Too little care of this! 

Take physic, pomp.

Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,

That thou mayst shake the superflux to them

And show the heavens more just.

----King Lear.

The storm...

Nothing he had ever seen before of life 

in the city or anywhere else had prepared him

for the stories they told him or

the chilling matter of fact-ness  of their telling,

as though the world that described was

the way the world has always been

as far as they knew would always go on being.

He came to realize that more often than not

their homelessness was not worse than the homes,

if they had ever had any, that they had fled or

be thrown out of a simply seen

fall pieces around their ears.

If the police would not let them sleep

in the subway, they simply moved on to

some boarded- up tenement or public latrine.

If they could get hold of drugs,

they injected oven cleaner, maybe , or 

sniffed glue or or gasoline, or

anything else that came their way.

If panhandling did not pay off they stole,or

if they weren't too battered looking,

they found somebody who would pay them

for the use of their bodies and may be even

take them in ,feed them and buy them cloths

and treat them decently for while,

often they would find themselves

a professional who would handle

such transactions for them,

enjoying themselves for free from time to time

and may be literally throwing them out

the window or off a fire escape when

they stopped bringing money.

If they were resourceful ,

they might pick up the price of a meal

by tearing out in to rush hour by traffic

when the lights turned red and swabbing off

wind shields with a wet rag, or

scourging the coin return slots of pay phones.

He suspected that beneath their opaque gaze,

they were asking them selves how

they might be able to make use of him

and wondering , if he in turn was asking

himself how and in what ways

he might be able to make use of them.

A girl would drop her eyes or a boy give

a knowing smile, when there did not seem

to be anything to smile at,and he suddenly

felt something that approached terror.

What terrified him was that

they were all of them for sale.

--- Fredric Buechner.

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

"It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment 

on our liberties.

We hold this prudent jealousy to be 

the first duty of citizens,

and one of the noblest characteristics of 

the late Revolution.

The freeman of America did not wait till 

usurped power had strengthened

itself by exercise, and entangled 

the question in precedents.

They saw all the consequences in the principle,

and they avoided the consequences 

by denying the principle."

-- James Madison (1751-1836)
Father of the Constitution for the USA.
4th US President
Source: "A Memorial and Remonstrance".

Equal among Humans....Tu Tu.. Mi Mi.....

In matters of Human equality... 

One's actions are as arbitrary as that of others. 

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....

As a journey to regain 

One's lost innocence

That is humble and vulnerable.

Not as being insignificant Or indifferent Or

A manipulation of  the conscious self

That leads one to be delusional 

With a distortions of reality 

Where one is lost even more 

In to the trappings of falsehood 

An undoing.......

Where nothing is left for imagination 

And without such cleansing

There is neither freedom nor 

Evolution of the self

From its past.

The myth of wolf child......

Every intelligent life form 

Is equally capable of knowing 

what is known and that is to be known.

Commonsense....

Lacking in commonsense

Even the most complex calculations fall short.

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

Our ultimate freedom

is the right and power to decide

how anybody or anything

outside of ourselves will affect us.

-- Steven R. CoveyAmerican author

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Let them stand undisturbed as monuments of

the safety with which error of opinion

may be tolerated,

where reason is left free to combat it.

-- Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826), US Founding Father,
3rd US President.
Drafted the Declaration of Independence.

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

I think what motivates people is not great hate,

but great love for other people.

-- Huey P. Newton (1942-1989) 
Founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
Source: paraphrasing Che

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

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet 

broke a chain or freed a human soul.

-- Mark Twain
[Samuel Langhorne Clemens1835-1910]

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Reaching consensus in a group is often 

confused with finding the right answer.

-- Norman Mailer(1923-2007) American novelist, 
journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, 
screenwriter, and film director.

Quote of the Day.........

There is a principle which is a bar against

all information,

which is a proof against all argument, and

which cannot fail to keep a man

in everlasting ignorance --

that principle is condemnation

before investigation.

-- Herbert Spencer(1820-1903) .
British author, economist, philosopher

Quote of the day.....

Education is not to reform students or 

amuse them or to make them expert technicians. 

It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, 

inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, 

if possible.

-- Robert M. Hutchins (1899-1977).

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"The capacity to learn is a gift; 

The ability to learn is a skill; 

The WILLINGNESS to learn is a choice.

-- Unknown

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

To act without clear understanding,

To form habits without investigation,

To follow a path all one's life

Without knowing where it really leads --

Such is the behavior of the multitude.

-- Mencius
[Mengzi Meng-tse] (c.371 - c.288 B.C.) 
Chinese Confucian philosopher

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

An Idler says , A lion in the street !

A fierce Lion in the alley....!

---Sant Kabir.