If life is beautiful, Why is everyone sorrowful.   If everyone is not sorrowful, But happy, Then why is everyone searching for happiness.   Why would a happy man Search for happiness.   If prescriptions worked Why is everyone still doing them.   If churches and temples And priests and pundits Provide access to god, […]

Man lives a miserable life.   He suffers In most moments Of the day.   The moments He is not suffering Are moments that the suffering is not so extreme To come to his attention.   He is suffering When in pain. He is suffering When trying to get out of pain.   He is […]

Tonight you will go home. You will eat dinner. You may have a short conflict with your family about a domestic issue. You will think about work. You will consider what to watch on television. You will check email. You may go to the grocery store and pick up something on aisle 7. In the […]

On the mountain top Life becomes easy.   Because illusions Have been removed.   Chases Have come to an end.   Struggles Have ceased.   Prescriptions In all their forms Have been recognized for what they are.   Traps Are easily avoided.   Happiness And all such things May stay Or come and go, But […]

Man will always be assaulted. He will always suffer. There is no other practical possibility for him.   Why is this so.   Because he has an aversion To Reality.   He is intensely attracted To viewing things in accordance To the way he imagines they should be.   Reality Is of no interest to […]

In this life You will experience suffering.   A suffering so intense You will find it difficult to lift your eyes.   In this life You will do what you can.   Some things that you do Are things for which you will never be forgiven.   Some things you do Will be things for […]

Competition has become the way of man.   To attempt to inch-by another.   But I say . . . Of what joy, Of what value, Of what satisfaction is it To do what another can do.   What sort of greatness lies In bettering another.   If one plays the same game As the […]

Of what relevance, Is it to create a thing That is not The Highest Art.   Commercialism Is a poison That attracts the neophyte And the hack.   Only a Serious man Can produce Art.   Art is a thing That must be protected.   On the whole It must be protected From the world. […]

Why shall a human Be common.   The functions that occur Within his body and brain Are unique.   The process by which He develops in the womb Is unique.   Why shall he, Who is the product of uniqueness, And has uniqueness within body and brain, Be common.   He is common Because society […]

Truth does not lie In the trite phrases, The euthanized tenets, The anemic cliches, Or the verbose and repetitive ramblings, Of spiritualists, self-helpists, motivationalists, and speakers.   Authority Is the enemy.   Living up to ideals Is for those with clipped wings.   Following doctrines Is for the brainless.   Practicing prescriptions Is for the […]