The only lasting revolution is a revolution that happens within human beings. Without lasting internal change, oppressed revolutionaries who succeed in overthrowing their oppressors easily fall into the trap of becoming the oppressor themselves. All the problems of the world are a reflection of the state that we collectively have within. Change that and the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘seeking’
About Revolutions and Meditation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged enjoy, enjoyment, fear, happiness, help, joy, life, love, meditation, oppressed, oppression, protest, revolution, seeking on December 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Work/Life
Posted in For the People, by the People, tagged happiness, heaven, life, love, meditation, seeking, truth, work on May 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A young man stands up languidly from the bar stool that sits just adjacent to the barista’s home for the next 8 hours of his life. He smiles and turns his head upward, cherishing the last drops of his free late. A woman catches his attention from the nearby coffee-line and says in a bright [...]
How do you define value in your life?
Posted in For the People, by the People, tagged culture, enjoyment, faith, happiness, how, joy, life, love, meaning, money, seeking, spirit, spirituality, truth, why, work, work ethic on May 8, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I wonder how people define value for themselves? A friend told me a story about a man who had worked a 45 year career at the Boeing Corporation as a mechanic. At his retirement party he was asked “if you could change anything about your work at Boeing what would it be?” The recently retired [...]
Simple Words
Posted in One Syllable Exercises, tagged art, evolution, happiness, interesting, joy, life, love, meditation, peace, people, seek, seeking, silence, truth, wonder, Zen on January 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Go on. Let go. Get what you want from this life. There is a chance that you will be what you want. No more time to waste. The time is now and here you are. Go and see what it is like. It is beautiful. I have seen this many times before. So what do [...]
World Population: 1.75 Billion to 6.8 Billion in 100 Years
Posted in For the People, by the People, tagged freedom, help, life, love, meditation, people, population, seeking, spirit, spirituality, statistics, truth on April 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
For the year 1910 our world population was estimated by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (2008) to be 1.75 billion people. After 100 years the world population is nearly 4 times that amount at approximately 6.8 billion people. So I ask, why the sudden, massive increase in population? I am not [...]
Writing for What
Posted in For the People, by the People, tagged art, evolution, faith, god, meditation, mental silence, religion, seeking, spirit, spirituality, truth, Writing on January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Writing is a fickle thing. You long to get a certain point across, but in the end you are a bit stuck because everyone is reading from a different perspective. It is as if we all wear a different shaped boxes on our heads, with lenses that speak to our minds in different magnifications and [...]
Life, liberity and the persuit of happiness
Posted in For the People, by the People, tagged evolution, happiness, liberty, life, love, meaning, meditation, seeking on January 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
What does happiness mean to you? Is it enough to get up and go to work every day for the rest of our lives? To make more money and buy more stuff? Does that give enough meaning in our lives so that we can be fully satisfied? We Americans have so much weath outside and [...]
