Reality Me

Category: Philosophy

Think deep.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: In retrospect, I did it all wrong.
    Master: What about all you haven’t done yet?

  • If Not

    If not for this darkness
       I could see
    If not for this sadness
       I could be happy
    If not for this weight
       I could move
    If not for this pit
       I could escape
    If not for this solitude
       I could laugh.

  • I was never a very good _____

    I was never a very good Presbyterian
    Nor a very good Baptist
    I was never a very good Methodist
    I attended a Catholic church once
       And was not a very good Catholic
    I was never a very good Lutheran
    I tried reading the Book of Mormon
       But was never a very good Mormon
    I attended some Wiccan ceremonies
       But I was never a very good Wiccan
    I have chanted
       But I was never a very good Buddhist

    I have seen fairies
    Spoken to the Great Spirit, o’ Maker of Life
    Drawn down the moon
    Worshiped the Sun
    Praised the Mother
    Oh Blessed Be!
    I have been a trespasser
       And a debtor
    I have taken communion
       The Body and The Blood
    But I was never a very good believer

    But, in all these things, the Spirit in me
       Has been the best that I can be.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: This could be the last day of my life.
    Master: This could be the first.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: I feel like I am fighting my destiny.
    Master: Are you doing what you want?

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: I am not in control today.
    Master: Does one ever control the river? Just steer the boat.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: I am overwhelmed.
    Master: Perhaps you do too much at once.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: I was very happy until I was told I wasn’t.
    Master: With great effort, we climb to heights from which it is so easy to be knocked down.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: Correcting the results of my poor judgments is ridiculously difficult.
    Master: Much easier to use good judgment in the first place.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: Look. A bus.
    Master: Get out of the street!

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: Take it back.
    Master: Once a stone is tossed in the pond, only time calms the ripples.

  • Anxiety

    This hand versus that
    The good and the bad;
    Trying to spread good
    But feel only sad;
    A harmless white lie
    still tears at the soul;
    Her ego judged me
    When I did no wrong
    Then I judged her
    Same verse; same song.

    Look in the mirror
    It’s me that I see;
    The image that is
    Not the one I want it to be;
    They write the rules
    I write the rules
    There are no rules
    We; the fools.

    I cannot live
    Upon this pillar
    So very tall;
    Such that all can see
    The stature
    The nature
    The me;
    The higher it rises
    The bigger it becomes
    More of the pillar they see
    And so much less of me;
    As big as I wish to be
    I’m shrinking
    Vanishing
    Becoming
    To small to see.

  • Amy’s Christmas Present

    Amy wants a puppy for Christmas but we already have two large German Shepherds so I’m getting her this instead:
    Small child rides aligator
    Picture borrowed from Picture is Unrelated without permission.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: If I think of all the tasks I must do, I cannot move.
    Master: Instead of thinking of all, do one task.

  • Doug’s Mantras

    File this under things I thought I’d never say.

    Clothing belongs in one of three places: on your body, the laundry, or folded up and put away.