the new moon

I don’t have much hate in my heart, but I hate them for killing me. I hate them for hurting me. I don’t like to hate, but I do them, because they’ll never let me be. I don’t have much fear anymore, because I know this is all temporary. I laugh at all they do to me, because obviously they can’t see, all their lies when they say that we are all free.

This would be true if they will just let me be. I don’t have much anger in my heart, although I should at them, for taking my goodness away. I hate what they try to obligate me to, each and everyday. They will regret it today. Telltale now, island swimmers frown, debutante honey magic, seeing all they rise and clown. Yet I still remain proud.

I don’t have much hate in my heart, but I hate this for what it does, and I hate this place, this country, for taking all my love. So sad, so true. Its what they do to me and you. We must find the new reasons, we must find the new moon. The new moon begs for her knowledge. She laughs and dances, and sweeps away. Now to watch all things unnatural break and forsake.

Ben Harris - Natural Philosophy

arguments

Socrates: "... People find it difficult to agree on exactly what is it they’re talking about, and this makes it hard for them to learn from one another and so bring their conversations to a mutually satisfactory conclusion. What happens instead, when two people are arguing about something, is that one person tells the other that he’s wrong or has expressed himself obscurely, and then they get angry and each thinks that his own point of view is being maliciously misinterpreted by the other person, and they start trying to win the argument rather than look into the issue they set out to discuss…”

Plato - Gorgias

reactive thoughts

Do you have any idea how your mind came up with the thoughts it now has? Do you not know that your world has manipulated your mind to think as you do? Wouldn’t it be better for you to manipulate your mind than for the world to?Would you not be better off to think the thoughts you want to think, than those of others? Are you not better armed with creative thoughts than with reactive thoughts?

Yet your mind is filled with reactive thought—thought that springs from the experience of others. Very few of your thoughts spring from self-produced data, much less self-produced preferences.

Neale Donald Walsch - Conversations with God

the sponsoring thought

So much of your present experience is based on your previous thought. Thought leads to experience, which leads to thought, which leads to experience. This can produce constant joy when the Sponsoring Thought is joyous. It can, and does, produce continual hell when the Sponsoring Thought is hellatious.

Neale Donald Walsch - Conversations with God

sleepwalkers

The world is in the condition that it’s in because the world is full of sleepwalkers.

Neale Donald Walsch - Conversations with God