Peace
animosity - of da species.
animosity everywhere. Why so much animosity?
Who can you trust if you can't trust yourself?
Survival of the fittest: the illusion we are taught, every man for himself, make your money piles, your empty grains of gold.
Never taught to love your brother or your sister - never taught to accumulate virtue.
Only taught to make money and be a consumer.
Learn how to teach yourself. Unlearn what you have learned.
Some people look tall, but that is only because they are standing on their wallets. It is an illusion.
Be distrustfull of material philosophy and moneymaking spirituality. Though it's hands may be like silk, it's heart is of iron. It will lull you into stagnation; betray you in the end.
Life is a puzzle, that I have never understood. Breaks me at times with it's lack of love.
Though I'am learning to survive. To toughen my skin. It never completely protects me within.
I stand with my back straight in the sinking mud.
In my stubborn refusal to relinquish the good.
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religion and civilization a misconstrued realisation.
a hectic annihilation of re-habilitation.
TV eyes staring out, at a plastic culture,
staring in the face of the corporate vulture.
a damn sepulchre.
a concrete crown over natures head.
but who cares? Let it be.
let it be.
then I can sleep and forget about the demons who torture my soul. Day and night without rest. I breath them in and I breath them out. I hear their voices everyday crying out to me. DO SOMETHING!! DO SOMETHING!!
But what can I do?
Switch off my mind to natures distress? Turn off my emotions to the lonely and poor? Become cold-hearted and live for myself, accumalate a mountain of useless wealth? Wealth that will decieve me. Wealth that cannot last. wealth that will betray me. Wealth the iron clasp.
Wealth that will darken my soul and pollute my mind.
Shine not my star, shine not my eyes.
Be silent my soul, speak no more.
Let truth be seated.
Let spirit be contained.
Let the deserts accumalate, but do not water them.
Let the people grow hungry, but do not feed them.
For that is the way of men. That is the way we are. Our left hand is bleeding, because the right hand holds a knife.
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My brother calls to me through the fog. "I did not leave my canvas blank, though sometimes I wish I had. I do not wish for you to do the same. I know my work isn't finished yet, all my mistakes, will oneday be made into something far more beautiful than I originally intended. That is the way of the artist. So pick up your paintbrush, and paint. Become a master craftsman of you life. Do not lay idle. Do not leave your canvas blank. "
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So weave at your lives, and as you work each strand into the fabric of your souls loom. Keep your truth close by - a guiding light.
Your hands are mighty and so are your eyes.
An artist your are. An artist you were born.
Your life is your poem, your story your song.
your home is your heart, where you belong.
Your experiences are your creative wealth.
To live is an art.
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Artistic: what is artistic?
To live and be true to yourself.
Forget the ego, forget about money and fame. Forget about any material illusion you think you may need. Anything that shouts too loud, that demands your attention, anything that stops you from listening to the poem within.
Remember your truth and remember your heart. Remember who you are: the real you. When the masks are gone and the act is over.
Our masks are our survival to get us through life.
We are all actors on a stage, but deep within us we have a voice, that rings true. Underneath the layers of the everchanging personality. The core that speaks: "be still and know I am God."
What is your heart telling you to do?
When your create art, put your soul into it.
Dance with the spirit flame that lives within you. Only don't suffocate it with seductive evil. Don't be decieved by thine own ego.
Arogance and pride - are some of our greatest failures.
Humbleness and compassion - some of our greatest achievements.
God bless the world &
God bless you.
may the stars smile upon you.
may the sun embrace you with it's warmth.
may the eyes of God be your eyes.
may the hand of God be your hand.
may the peace of heaven be with thee.
a new year starts soon.
