Life and reality conflict as well as compliment. The distinction is up to the individual. |
Ki on Life *********************************** Life It is more than a little bit of quiet frustration to look at life and not get caught up, to the point of obsession, with the complications and vagaries of our journey through this thing we call life. We can say it is a challenge, but it is so much more. If . . . . . and when we can look at life with an unbiased and objective perspective, we can see and experience the wondrous miracle that life represents. Not from a religious point of view, but feel free to consider such a reality, but from what can only be described as a natural and fundamental perception of existence itself. Some might call this objectivism, and in many respects they would be correct, but as self-interested as we may be as human beings, it is so much more difficult to step away from our own considerations and look at life around us from a truly unbiased and objective perspective. It suggests that this would be the essence of what many call ‘empathy’, the ability to see things totally disengaged from what ‘we’ think and feel, but more so what actually ‘is’. A fascinating concept to contemplate. What a joy it is to simply be alive. Everything around us is simple and yet verges on the incomprehensibly complex, the probabilities that this has all come about through random and purposeless events as improbable as what evolution suggests. And yet it seems that this is the case. It really doesn’t matter one way or the other, at least from whatever objective abilities we may or may not possess. If we exist at all, then these other things do as well, and if not, then I am not sure what we are contemplating as we speak. Are we a figment of our own imaginations, or the creation of something indefinable and inexplicable. Most of us choose to believe in a reality where we are substantive and entities of self-determination. The only other alternative is that of madness and embracing the abyss. One just has to love philosophy and our ability to think and choose for ourselves. It is this ability, this reality, that gives us purpose and direction. It may be confusing and frustrating at times, but it is a wonderful journey that defines us as individuals and allows us to determine our own destinies. I like that. It is the way it should be. We are responsible for ourselves whether we want to be or not, and for others to the degree that we determine we are able. Everything else is secondary. Life is truly a bitch. ******************************** Ki on Life ***************** alive Life matters to he who is alive ~ ki ~ ************************ life It is only life that matters Your life, my life, all life It is never a matter of color, or gender, or belief It is the concept of justice and freedom and peace The essence of life The right to live All lives matter ~ ki ~ ********************************* the path ' Some people take the easy path, the one most taken others choose the road less taken, the path of challenge I follow a path of my own making with no idea of where I am, only that I am and know not where I am going only where I have been ' ~ ki ~ ********************************* freedom True Freedom is never fully realized . . . UNTIL . . . the rights you bestow are more than those you accept ~ ki ~ ************************ greater There can be no greater miracle there is no greater gift there is no greater magic than life itself ~ ki ~ ************************ certainty hubris is the ultimate arrogance when a man is so certain of himself that he thinks he can do no wrong and dismisses the need to prove his point to anyone at all, even to himself truth becomes expendable integrity is inconvenient honor becomes irrelevant the loss of soul is inevitable all for the fleeting perception of being right while refusing to accept even the possibility that there are things beyond their experience ~ ki ~ ********************* injustice there is no racial injustice there exists only injustice resolution will be impossible until the day that the concept of WE triumphs the concept of ME ~ ki ~ ******************* integrity integrity is truly the only color that matters ~ ki ~ ********************* a single step take a step, a single step any direction, at any time forward, backward, it is all the same a single step, every one an experience Each an adventure, something learned Then . . . . . . . . . . take another ~ ki ~ ********************* welcome Truth can be uncomfortable, but it is always welcome ~ ki ~ ***************** happen life does not change in a single day but master today then another and it will come ~ ki ~ ********************* say do as I say not what you think I say ~ ki ~ ************************* price the sober price of freedom is that of empathy, compassion and reason ~ ki ~ ********************* others if you do not grant freedom to Others you shall never experience it for yourself ~ ki ~ ******************* exceptions there are no exceptions to the ideal of freedom as with all things what you reap is what you have sown ~ ki ~ ********************** reverence the greatness of an individual as well as a nation is reflected in its reverence for life ~ ki ~ ************************* humble The immensity of life is reflected in its most diminutive and humble members ~ ki ~ ******************** between life is played out somewhere between right and wrong ~ ki ~ ******************* effort there is little effort in making a child put your efforts into creating a child to be proud of that does not turn into an adult that needs to be fixed ~ ki ~ ************************** exists in the end there can only be truth it exists because it exists truth can be experienced it can be accepted truth can never be created ~ ki ~ ********************** see one cannot see the forest for the trees or an angel dancing on the head of a pin not because these things do not exist but only because one does not wish to see all things can be known if you have the resolve to try all are visible if you can focus your gaze the biggest challenges have the simplest answers if the solutions you seek are through thought and reason instead of emotion and ignorance things are rarely what they seem to be we create our own fears, our own walls, and our own demons we invite the defeat of all we hold dear when we talk but do not listen, and listen but do not hear the answer my friend is blowin' in the wind it is forever ours to try and catch them ~ ki ~ *********************** threat do not fear the gun for it is but a tool fear he who does not value life for he is a perpetual threat ~ ki ~ **************** answers there are no easy answers but there are simple ones the price of freedom is strength and integrity that of security is determination and character that of peace is control of self in all things there is but one choice to be free, or to be slave ~ ki ~ ********************** remain we have forgotten more than we remember our memories are our oldest friends they may someday fade with time and yet remain with us forever ~ ki ~ ***************** why? there is a randomness to life that I find disquieting and disheartening the pain, the suffering, the chaos i continue to search for answers and find little but more questions the echoes of 'why?' never leave my mind ~ ki ~ *************** possibilities as you search for possibilities, so you shall find opportunities ~ ki ~ ********************* but there is a countless number of yesterdays there is but one today tomorrow does not exist ~ ki ~ ***************** not you cannot see if you do not look or ever hear if you do not listen experience will elude if you do not feel and if you do not think? you shall never know life or find the gift of love ~ ki ~ ****************** reality sucks if your reality sucks . . . . . create another reality . . . . . understand the power you own ~ ki ~ ******************** To sample all of the available 'thoughts' of Ki you can find them here:
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