As a “teacher” (or a person in general): ask questions that makes “students” more aware of what they think, do & say and how they respond to others thoughts, actions & words by encouraging them to communicate/comprehend their own schema with one another (rather than present to them any one schema as “right” or “wrong” and/or “good” or “bad”).
To Do, in Life:
2009Nov1 at 1108 (Heart Thoughts, Personal Life, Statements, Thinkables)
Tags: action, awareness, bad, communication, comprehension, do, ecouraging, good, life, presentation, questions, right, schema, students, Teacher, thought, words, wrong
Here in al-Maghreb
2009Aug3 at 0813 (Heart Thoughts, Personal Life, Poetry)
Tags: ambition, broken, crush, dead, desire, dim, flame, hate, heart, Jon Foreman, light, longing, love, mission, pure, remember, wisdom
I’m sitting on my bed
Jon Foreman echoing in my head
Music releases my emotions
And feelings of longing raise me from the dead
My chest splits down the middle, a door is opened
From the whole on its left, the heart there is broken
Its light is dim because it’s far from him
Who loves it as much as his own
That “him” is I
And I think I know that guy–
Who can let ambition run his entire mission
And use others to fuel his desire.
But let the flames grow higher
On all that I aspire
If it lets the heart of my love grow dim.
I will hate it and crush it and have no more of it
And remember our hearts instead
And learn of her feelings and all of their dealings
And seek what she’s thought and all that it’s brought
And keep her heart strong, in my chest, where it belongs.
Oh God, let ambitions be dead.
Oh God, give us pure wisdom instead.
“I Love You” (a proposal to my beloved)
2009May7 at 0515 (Heart Thoughts, Personal Life, Songs)
Tags: beauty, belief, beloved, burden, burning, chaos, darkness, end, flame, healing, heartlessness, humility, knowledge, life, lonely, love, marry me?, pain, proposal, pure, serious, shame, singing, sun, together, true love, truth, want, yielding
Why do we let things become so serious?
Why do we feel so burdened?
Why do we try to handle everything alone?
I don’t know…
I don’t know…
But I want to know something
I want to know someone
And I believe that you and I, each are the others one
To heal through the chaos
To heal through the pain
Together call on the truth, and live within its flame
To burn away the lies in fear and find what’s left to name
Be it beauty, or be it shame
I don’t care as long as your there to take it on again
We’ll burn together
As bright as the sun
Illuminating the darkness, cutting through the heartlessness
As long as we’re humble
As long as we’re pure
Yielding to the other will be true love, I’m sure
But in the end
It comes down to this hardly simple thing:
I want to know someone
I want to be known
And I believe that you and I, each are the others own
I believe that you and I, each are the others own
So will you marry me?
Will you be my one?
I want to know my life with you
To sing of truth and love
Will you marry me?
Disillusionment…in His name
2009Apr18 at 0409 (Community, Heart Thoughts, Personal Life, Poetry, Theology?, Thinkables)
Tags: action, affirmation, arbitrary, balance, cognitive dissonance, culture, deception, deprivation, disillusions, find, florals, force, forgive, freedom, friendship, imagination, Jesus, morals, name, peace, pleasure, reality, reason, refuge, relate, relationship, rotten flesh, speak, sweet, systematic life, truth, where?, wisdom
Imaginary Jesus
Whose always there to please us
Confined to dissolve our cognitive dissonance
Our refuge relation
Our affirming sensation
Our utter deprivation
of self-expression
Spoken in His name.
Arbitrary morals
The culture’s deceptive florals
Smelling so sweet, but grown solely from rotting flesh
Our burdensome wisdom
Our incomplete system
Our forceful piston
Pushing us to fall in line
Acted out in His name.
Where is the balance
Of reason and freedom
Of real relations and forgiving friendships?
Why must the Word be fake
Or only seen from one man’s take?
Reality is found in humility of the mind
And forgiveness is found in humility of the kind.
But how does one find
the peace of mind
to ever be truly kind?
Beware! Statistics say you will fail!
2009Apr17 at 0409 (Heart Thoughts, Personal Life, Statements, Thinkables)
Tags: always, anger, assumption, belief, contentment, death, doubt, facts, fail, fear, happiness, indefinitely, judgment, life, preparation, relationship, response, seek, smile, statistics, today, tomorrow, truth
How do we respond to such cold comments?
“You two are in the ’sparkles’ stage–so happy and content, in six months, it will die.”
What do they mean by saying it? They recognize that we are happy and content, but then do they assume we always have been? And that we believe we always will be?
Honestly, their statistics and irrelevant doubt enrage me. I spout out streams of sarcastic wit, judging the conditions of their own relationships as apparently poor and “dead” in themselves.
Nevertheless, we cannot say indefinitely and we cannot judge at all. So, we’ll smile in their general direction and file away these “facts.” We’ll live in today and prepare for tomorrow and seek for the truth, in where we are at.
Chaos at Hand
2009Feb24 at 0230 (Community, Conversations in my Head, Gatherings, Heart Thoughts, Personal Life, Poetry, Thinkables)
Tags: truth, free, understanding, terrified, judgment, wait, God, blind, pride, hear, speak, heart, rest, desire, shame, evil, thought, darkness, words, honest, called, ignorance, peace, chaos, feelings, where?, freedom, arms, willingness, relationship, why?, blood, pressure, passion, pleasure, sky, please, sight, lives, sounds, kitchen, dirty, damp, master, food, distinguish, pot, pan, clean, ceiling, floor, past, lies, sea, hands, reach, name, bind, plea, dry, save, hell, die, pitiful, fighting, what?, matter, flatter, refuse, face, hold, validate, man, humiliation, race, win, others, prize, domination, Lord?, battles, return, waste, flesh, claim, relate, yell, command, point, gavel, weight, sweat, doom, walls, throat, one another
Chaos swirling rapidly around
So many lives, so many sounds
The kitchen’s dirty, dark and damp
The master’s calling for food
But I can’t see.
I could.
I used to distinguish from pot and pan;
The dirty and clean;
The ceiling and floor.
But not any more.
Now I feel,
I feel for real.
I see there are so many lies.
Now I see,
I see the sea.
And my hands reach up for the skies.
Freedom, freedom calls my name
The truth will set you free.
Bind the evil,
Kick it out!
And then please hear my plea
And then please speak with me.
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Peace, peace, peace, be still
The words come from a dry, croaking throat
Evil has won
But your saving us, son
Live in hell so that we may die
In our pitiful, passionate pleasures
I’m fighting, yes! But what for?!
I’m living, yes! But what for?!
But what for?! But. What. For?!
And why?
…It doesn’t matter now, it seems
The passing has already come
I’m truly flattered now, it seems
…no!
I refuse.
I will not hold up your face any more
I will not validate your lies.
You are just a man like me…
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I have been humiliated
Entirely so
And yes, I feel it too,
The pressure to race, to win, to hold
From others as well as my own.
But when: to rest, to wait, to hold
One another instead of a prize,
In honest, willing thoughtfulness
Not dominant, prurient pride.
Where is the peace, my Lord?
Where is the desire to understand?
Where is the ignorance slight,
And thoughtfulness true?
Where are the battles finally won?
In your arms I’ll rest, my Lord
But to return to the darkness?
Truly Lord, what lies in the wastes?
The flesh and blood, claimed by One
Who dooms to ignorant fate.
And the hearts of some, claimed by One
Who choose to wait and relate.
Still, the darkness weighs heavily
The master’s voice yells again
But only so long as to give commands
And next the judge comes in.
The master points,
I feel ashamed
Then terrified as the gavel is raised
Over his head,
It weighs so much
He sweats but his eyes are blind
Then he lets it fall onto my chest
And my doomed life spatters
Over them and the walls
And finally, I am at rest.
When Will it End?
2009Feb9 at 0201 (Heart Thoughts, Songs)
Tags: angry, Christ, end, hope, hungry, lonely, pain, temptations, tired, when?, will
Hungry, angry, lonely and tired,
My will has all but expired, again
And the temptations come at me in droves
Hear the Son, some say
He is gonna come back, some day
And take all of our pain away
But my hope finds itself not at home…
Truth, Christ and Willingness
2009Feb9 at 0254 (Heart Thoughts, Personal Life)
Tags: Christ, evade, seek, truth, willingness
If you seek what is true, you are seeking the Christ;
However, do not lose your willingness, or truth will evade you swiftly.
In an Old Land Once Called Home
2009Jan5 at 0152 (Heart Thoughts, Personal Life)
Tags: feelings, history, home, knowledge, panic, sadness, time, where?
Pictures, movies, memories of the past.
Why is the reaction so strong? To hear where people are now.
To not know. To know, but not know them anymore.
What is this feeling? Sadness accompanies it; panic as well, I think;
to run away–back to where I should be; to run towards it–back to where I’m from…
