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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.

  • Textimony 20120805

           dry horizon dusk           crimson passion births star shine                cat chasing crickets Continue reading

  • Textifying to the Encompassing Good

    Five years ago, after someone claimed that texting was a complete waste of time, I challenged myself: Would it not be a wonderful exercise in perennial philosophy to come up with aphorisms in 160 characters or less? I began to… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120804

    Fairness is but one facet of Justice…     Obsess on this alone & you forget such alternatives as Mercifulness without which Justice becomes certain tyranny. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120801

    The miser lurks in a smog of resentment & greed,                        ever vigilant for phantom enemies stealing an unreal treasure,                    … Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120731

      Virtue seeks justice in a symphony of gentle word & simple deed. Vice seeks justification in a cacophony of bitter talk & manic injury. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120729

    Wander not in paranoid conspiracies for position nor trample others in phantasms of privilege. Sow universal misery; reap the whirlwind. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120720

    At the limit we engage beginning & ending. At the boundary we embrace true concern & eschew false security. Now/here on the edge: nowhere. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120630

    “Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” ~Rabindranath Tagore Continue reading

  • textimony 20120624

    world interruption close one eye, open other alternating I Continue reading

  • textimony 20120620

    dwelling on limits stalking farthest boundaries beautiful nowhere Continue reading

  • On companionship

    On companionship Today, I had the opportunity to meet the bright-minded young soul, Jordan Kincaid, who authored the above contemplation. Reading this, I am recalled to an aphorism from January, Textimony 20120128. I am also reminded of when my beloved… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120506

    Becoming LIBERATED means being DELIBERATE in thought & in deed. Embrace opportunity, but DELIVERANCE must come from your own DECISIVE action Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120505

    Our highest adaptation is that we need not be merely adaptive. Vital reason can detach from the drive to exist & we can flourish in LIBERTY. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120503

    RESOLUTENESS is disciplined DETACHMENT from unnecessary actualities in favor of rigorous ENGAGEMENT with essential possibilities. Be resolute; be liberated! Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120501

      Philosophizing requires a SINGULAR RESOLVE that awakens the contemplator to originary self-causation. No philosophizing is accidental. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120423

    Philosophizing experiments in possibilities that are not so much replies to what has been answered as invitations to discover what has yet to be asked. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120420

    To do or failing to do? Yesterday gone & tomorrow not yet. Living fully, believing openly, loving profoundly. This today now/here: How can failure happen? Continue reading