☮Malang☮'s Blog – October 2011 Archive (4)

Help us to remember; 

That the jerk who cut us off in traffic last night

is a single mother who worked nine hours that day,

that she is rushing home to cook dinner and help with homework,

to do the laundry and spend a few precious moments with her children. 

That the pierced, tattooed, disinterested young man

who takes forever at the checkout stand, is a worried 19-year-old college student, who is balancing his apprehension over final exams with his…

I Am

In your world you are truly alone, enclosed in your ever-changing dream, which you take for life. Every pleasure, physical or mental, needs an instrument. Both the physical and mental instruments are material; they get tired and worn out. The pleasure they yield is necessarily limited in intensity and duration. Pain is the background of all your pleasures. You want them because you suffer. On the other hand, the very search for pleasure is the cause of pain. It is…

There is no darkness in the midst of Light

I live in a world where the words male and female are flexible and subjective, even redundant. A world of perpetual transformation, where sexuality and gender become obsolete as people begin to question why they should be the same person, day in, day out. A world where the overriding ethos is to question and explore your sexuality and gender without the restrictions prevalent in them altogether and surrounding activities that are seen as old…

 

Live in this world as if you are a traveller, a passer-by, with your clothes and shoes full of dust. Sometimes you sit under the shade of a tree, sometimes you walk in the desert. Be always a passer-by, for this is not home.



 

Love and compassion will heal the world



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