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Speak Your Inner Truth

Speak, whether it is simply using your voice, or through the written word. Try as much as possible to make your words positive ones, because words are seeds.

Speak about life, its essence, its beauty, your loves, your passion for it all, your ideas and inventions. Our world needs more creativity, and when we share it with others, we inspire each other. It builds.

Speak about the values that you believe lend integrity to life, that build the moral fiber of society, the higher ideals of philosophers. No dream is too lofty. We really need more big lofty dreams right now, because dreams when embraced passionately have this curious way of manifesting.

Speak to protect the innocent, for they do not have the experience to know when they are being preyed upon, or the wherewithal to protect themselves. We who do know better have a responsibility to protect them.

Most of all, simply speak your inner truth. Give yourself time to really get in touch with it. You know more than you think you do.

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
~ Coco Chanel

What Is Civilized?

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I agree with the quote by Edward Abbey. Many people take for granted that “moving forward in time” within our linear measurement of it, automatically implies progress and therefore becoming more civilized.

As I look around at society right now, I would argue that humanity as a collective is becoming less civilized by the minute.

We’ll do a lot better as a collective when we stop having the need to choose sides. The black and white paradigm, the ”you’re either with us or against us” attitude is holding us back from freeing ourselves from a societal system that constantly reinforces it. Nature exists in a state of cooperation, and humans could learn from this.

I am convinced that the cultures of the Indigenous peoples offer much more wisdom that would be beneficial to humanity transforming society right now. A good start is to not turn our backs on Nature, but to learn how to listen to it.

City

Ripen

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What if we grew into life with the knowledge that this is an Earth school, and our souls came here to learn and expand in our knowledge? Think of how this would change the society we are part of. I think it would create something quite magnificent. The beauty of the human soul is by and large not nurtured in the societal systems we inhabit at the present time.

Black & White & Rainbows

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Right, wrong,
north, south,
black, white,
which way do I go?

I have walked the flat
gray plane of existence
that this 3rd dimension
too often can be,
futilely exploring
the monotones of
an oft desolate place,
where each small
blade of grass shivers
sadly in the landscape,
calling out to the sky.

And I’ve wondered –
If white is all color,
and black its absence,
where are the colors between?

So I left that plane
and I’m climbing
a shining mountain;
I will not rest ’til
I find all my colors,
that grand view above
a too narrow horizon.
The trek is exhilarating,
the views are breathtaking,
and I’m heading for that
brilliant peak yonder.

It’s the place of my dreams,
where rainbows gleam
and eagles soar,
and my soul can live free.

Black & White & Rainbows is from Soul Journey: The Poetry of Life