“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.” — Maya Angelou (1928 – 2014) esteemed U.S.,
poet / author
“CONTEMPT PRIOR TO INVESTIGATION” –
“There is a prin-
ciple which is a bar
against all information,
which is proof against all
arguments and which can-
not fail to keep a man in ever-
lasting ignorance — that prin-
ciple is Contempt Prior to
Investigation. — HER-
BERT SPENCER”
(The Big Book,
p. 570)
WILLINGNESS TO TRY SOMETHING NEW –
“This is a giant step.
We don’t have to be reli-
gious; anyone can take this
step. All that is required is will-
ingness. All that is essential
is that we open the door to
a Power greater than
ourselves.” (The Ba-
sic Text, p. 25)
“We allow our
ignorance to pre-
vail upon us and make
us think we can survive
alone, alone in patches,
alone in groups, alone
in races, even alone
in genders.”
– Maya Angelou (1928 – 2014) esteemed U.S.,
poet / author
What tools have you used to reach greater spiritual enlightenment in your own journey, lately?
New Divide – Linkin Park (4:27)
Zen Bamboo Japanese Water Nature Meditation (5:10)
Enlightenment
by Vijay Seshadri, 1954
“It’s all empty, empty,”
he said to himself.
“The sex and drugs. The violence, especially.”
So he went down into the world to exercise his virtue,
thinking maybe that would help.
He taught a little kid to build a kite.
He found a cure,
and then he found a cure
for his cure.
He gave a woman at the mercy of the weather
his umbrella, even though
icy rain fell and he had pneumonia.
He settled a revolution in Spain.
Nothing worked.
The world happens, the world changes,
the world, it is written here,
in the next line,
is only its own membrane—
and, oh yes, your compassionate nature,
your compassion for our kind.
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