Without darkness
nothing comes to birth,
as without light
nothing flowers.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

One who accepts the fate of today, ignores the possibilities and potential of tomorrow.

If one values only life, living becomes meaningless.

The two most powerful states of altered consciousness, are being awake or asleep.

"It is not speaking that breaks our silence
but our unceasing anxiety to be heard"
...... Thomas Merton

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn't make any sense.

I said - War! Huh!
Good God y'all.
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing.

War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing. It demoralizes those who are trained for it. It brutalizes men of naturally gentle character. It outrages every beautiful canon of morality. Its path of glory is foul with the passions of lust, and red with the blood or murder.

"Mankind’s greatest accomplishment is not the revolution of technology it is the evolution of creativity "