Sunday, April 27, 2014

Diogenes Unchained

I am looking for the weakest
Who relies on the unseen strength
All my possessions, all my wisdom
All my love, all my fame
I grant to that one
Pour it uselessly at her feet.
I am not wasting my great resources
  for they will be used to build the eternal.

Small is Beautiful

The greatest accomplishments are small acts
The greatest strength is found in the weak
The greatest wisdom is the uneducated mind
Because the greatest power
Is the One who fills the empty.

Curse of Stealing

Woe to the poor man who steals from his brother;
Deeper still the disaster that befalls the authority
Who preys on the weak.

Present/Futue

Some are intended for imprisonment;
Some are intended to use weapons to kill;
Some are intended to serve their soul to their masters;
Some are intended to wipe their shoes on the back of the weak;
Some are intended to give all, leaving nothing for themselves;
Some are intended to rob the very life from another…
How often we forget the two guiding principles of existence:
  Whatever we do to others is what we will receive, and
  Our fate is in our hands.

Fearism

Our enemy is not the violent but violence;
  not the oppressor but oppression;
  not the terrorist but terrorism.
Woe to the one who becomes violent to combat violence;
  who oppresses to combat oppression;
  who terrorizes to combat terrorism,
for all he most fears will fall upon him.

Power

The power of deliverance is not physical
 
for we are not delivered from that which binds us.
The power of deliverance is not ethereal
  for ghosts are only whisperers, not chain-breakers.
The power of deliverance is not political
  for deception cannot build what is true.
The power of deliverance is not religious,
  priests are for comfort, not revolution.
The power of deliverance is unseen, raw and angry
  more solid than solid
  imperious to fear or bribes or weapons.
And He is triggered by the whispered cries of a child.


Fixer Upper

The Creator gave us an incomplete world so we might share in his creation.
He gave us a world of violence so that we might create peace.
He gave us a world of competition so that we might reward charity.
He gave us a world of suffering so that we might heal.
He gave us a world of emptiness so that we might fill it with love.