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Textimonies

160 character or less aphorisms that are sent out daily to my friends via text messages and then recorded here.

  • Modern Mythology: The Internet and Counterculture (Acidexia Intro)

    As all the chatter about the “2012 end of the world” dissolves back into the white noise from whence it came, we are still presented a unique vantage point. We can look at once backward and forward on cultural trends,… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20121127

        Accomplishing anything & doing something are two distinct, though not always independent, enterprises. Pay heed to which process you have given yourself over. Continue reading

    Textimony 20121127

  • Textimony 20121111

      Would you make grief? Then hold tight to what is born & must perish. Would you find joy? Then let the unborn & imperishable hold you. Love & do what you will! Continue reading

  • Textimony 20121110b

    All Encompassed,   none apart or alone.   Love is this first sigh.   Love is that last gasp.   Love is always already the only word. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20121110a

    Convictions benefit none   when they are baseless:   hopes for wisdom signify naught   without love disclosing a resolute path   to the heart of this Beautiful Order. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20121101

    Conditions where desire or fear overtake to unmake us: a mind full of superfluity, a belly empty of nutrition, and a heart out of sync with itself. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120923

    Attend. Adjust. Acknowledge: Unhindered by regret, this WAY lets-go the insolence reposing within success & embraces the humility residing within failure Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120822

    We try & are tried; harm & are harmed; help & are helped. Not having THE ANSWER for all time, we embrace historic solutions for the time being. Thus we strive . Related articles If we can refrain from harming… Continue reading

    Textimony 20120822

  • Textimony 20120821

    “Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is the same for all.” – Virgil “Love, and then what you will, do.” -St. Augustine Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120816

    “Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.” Frank Herbert, DUNE Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120811

    If seeking ethics, embrace fortitude; faith, compassion; wisdom, openness; divinity, mercy. But in seeking wholeness, embrace nothing. Let-go. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120809

    The “righteous” see only what is before them;       the Just obtain a more transcendent vision.          Overcoming before, no regretting after.  Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120807

    afternoon downpour sidewalk steam drifting upward empty cicada Continue reading