From the Korean romcom #KingTheLand: Sir, this is just the first step. The hotel, the company, who knows? You could take over the world. No. I don’t think it’s that important who owns the world. Just that it’s a good place to live.
John IRL
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If it could be sold, I couldn't afford it. Which is a good thing, since it's just a lot of Nothing. And it only happens right now. You must be present to win. And other assorted platitudes, some poetic, some not so much. Most posts from radicaldruid.com.
If I could get to the place where words aren’t needed, I’d shut up. If I could tell you without telling you, you’d be there and shut up too. How nice and quiet the world would be. But u couldn’t tell anybody about it. Because the language of trip is not translatable once u get back come down awake.
Time off from work is a pleasant but ultimately limited illusion. Because time only turns off when you see past it. And it’s not your mind or your eyes or your ears or your body. There’s no thinking about getting there. You’re either there. Or you’re not. Anywhere. But here. LOL.
Latest political thought: I don’t wanna sound like a broken record / but your relationship with the truth is checkered / don’t know if you have noticed but your emperor’s nekkid / and your soul’s like that pool: ain’t got reflective. LOL. Don’t get me started on that rap opera in wrote in 1993.
My #IRLReadingRightNow #AldousHuxley Perennial Philosophy #KoshoUchiyama Opening the Hand of Thought #JidduKrishnamurti Think on These Things #UGKrishnamurti Mind is a Myth #JorgeLuisBorges Collected Fictions #BookSky
How do you know the things you REALLY know? How do you know that? Who knows that? How do you know? Show your work. LOL. I always hated word problems. So much trouble created with words. Too bad they’re not what they say they are. The word “dirt” isn’t dirty. But that don’t make it clean. Or does it?
Is there a word for “divinity” not preloaded with gender, language, culture, personal, legal, religious or other preconceptions? One that doesn’t imply anything? If u find one, use it to address people too. Cause their age, culture, talk, skin, dress, sex, name don’t matter that much. Yours either.
That MAY be on my bingo card, but I got a real tall stack of those. Lemme get back at ya later on that. May take a while to prioritize, you know? Besides, the aunt that taught me bingo dealt for 20 years in casinos. I got good cards. But nobody NEEDS to win them all. All what? I give up.
Hurt people hurt people. That’s just simple biology and evolution. Right? Get better to do better. But what if you’re really already there? You just don’t know it. You’ve put your light under a bushel, so to speak. Get out of the way. Stop thinking about better. If you aren’t going to just do it.
Not the body not the mind not the emotions not the feelings not the experience not the job not the religion not the child not the parent not the partner not the rebel not the musician not the poet not the man not the human not the culture not the…Continue reading
Knot it All in Neti Neti
Not the body not the mind not the emotions not the feelings not the experience not the job not the religion not the child not the parent not the partner not the rebel not the musician not the poet not the man not the human not the culture not the…Continue reading
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Between the acts on the great stage the green room swells with life; like ocean waves the movement never stops. Each spent performer, bathed in sweat, absorbed into their entourage, glows with the energy of the crowd. #PoetSky #BlueSkyPoets #Rumi #Advaita
After a Line in Rumi
Between the acts on the great stage the green room swells with life; like ocean waves the movement never stops. Each spent performer, bathed in sweat, absorbed into their entourage, glows with the …
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When you realize the intro of the famous song "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple is the intro of Beethoven's 5th Symphony simply played backward. Mind-blowing. Original post
When I was coming up in school choir, I had a teacher who always encouraged us: "You guys, that's REALLY great harmony. For a unison." or "Wow! That's an awesome four-part unison. How microtonal!!!" One thing he NEVER said? "Don't worry. ANYONE can sing."😀
Life is an open book test. The problem is that humanity is not only spiritually dyslexic but also encouraged to interpret everything only on the surface. Our culture IS the spectrum. We never really understand the questions. Which are of course the answers. You just have to stop searching and look.
Which monkey is YOUR mind? The restless, unfocused state of mind jumping rapidly from branch to branch like an active ape - or the other one? A long-stemmed jar with a cherry inside. It's a trap. So long as you grasp that fruit with your fist, you can never extract your hand. You're stuck. Let go.
You say you're woke because your eyes are open and you're out of bed, and yet describing what you see, you fail to see yourself and choose instead to catalog the failings of the world that won't conform to how you feel and what you really want to see, since reality has no appeal. #BlueSkyPoets
Good Morning: gloss (glosa)
You say you’re woke because your eyes are open and you’re out of bed, and yet describing what you see, you fail to see yourself and choose instead to catalog the failings of the world t…
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Just shut your eyes and zip up your lip; let the illusion of indifference slip you in a coma of the beautiful life you pretend. It doesn't matter which way you choose. Your revolution is yesterday's news, lost in a column on the bottom right of page ten. #BlueSkyPoets #PoetSky #Poetry #Resist
Difference Song
Just shut your eyes and zip up your lip; let the illusion of indifference slip you in a coma of the beautiful life you pretend. It doesn’t matter which way you choose.Your revolution is yeste…
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Just because you can read the map, have bought travelogues and visitor guidesto the well-preserved brick-lined avenuesof tradition and ritual, and believe you know which way is north,doesn’t mean you know a thing about the terrain,the weather, the likely hazards … Continue reading →
Thatness
Just because you can read the map, have bought travelogues and visitor guidesto the well-preserved brick-lined avenuesof tradition and ritual, and believe you know which way is north,doesn’t mean you know a thing about the terrain,the weather, the likely hazards … Continue reading →
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A flashback to 1990 when I lounged in Memphis living on coffee. #PoetSky #BlueSkyPoets Pleasure City - last stop on the long, hot road, sun-drenched with memories long forgotten, hands that played their songs of construction, the leather blood-letters, as buried in the sand as siblings of Antigone.
Pleasure City
Canto I: Next stop, the driver said, smiling through cracked wicked lips, Pleasure City – we huddled, prenatal, wondering – even in the suburbs the legends grew, spread by the Party Pla…
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The king is slumped upon the throne His sceptre limp, his shoes unshone And where the queen is, no one tells But something in the kingdom smells The knights have turned to lonesome days And all the banners' greens to grays Perhaps the cook has spiked the stew With who knows what, for who knows who?
Foolscap and Old Rice
Alas, my head is bruised and hurt My hands are filled with ash and dirt The fire has gone out in the sink And there is not enough to drink Perhaps the sun has lost its flare, But as for me, I could…
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Like Sri Ramakrishna quipped (or maybe "quipped" isn't quite the right word), we're all just salt dolls sent out to measure the depth of the ocean. And you don't need to drink more than a spoonful to figure out the whole thing is salty.
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I’ve spent so much of my life in “musical” cities. Detroit, Los Angeles, Boston, Memphis, Seattle, and New Orleans seem like the big, obvious ones at first glance. But it’s …
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Think this is my new motto, if only because of the myriad ways it can be intended, spoken, and interpreted: “Well, it will be interesting to see how that plays out” as an appropriate response in any social situation. I feel I’m channeling my inner #Saki and Oscar Wilde with a set of rabbit ears. 🤔
Imagine this as a look: harajaku buffalo springfield glitterati chic. LOL.
I’m not sure we need any more bright and brave leftists pointing out how the country is going down the toilet thanks to the Plunger in Chief and his swirling sycophants. Honestly? Do you think nobody notices?
Somewhere a song of victory is waitingfor someone brave enough to write it down,once they slip past the barricades downtownwhere both sides are engaged in pointless hating. Until such time, what good is celebrating?Such tunes will just distract us as we drown,and occupy the mourners gathered…
Stale, Mate
Somewhere a song of victory is waitingfor someone brave enough to write it down,once they slip past the barricades downtownwhere both sides are engaged in pointless hating. Until such time, what good is celebrating?Such tunes will just distract us as we drown,and occupy the mourners gathered round,licking their lips. They…Continue reading
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