A Cup Of Tea And I Think Of Spring

Enjoying a cup of morning tea! (fresh lemon grass and vanilla) Oh, how it awakens the soul! Each sip, I nod approvingly with intermissions of laughter and smiles.  A brief chill quickly abrupt’s the air uninvited; and I sink deeply into my cup. Aah! Infiltrates the thought: This is chalice of pleasure, I declare! I raising my cup above in toast to The Divine: …

The Nature of Selfishness and Greed (A Transcendental Dialogue)

was conversing with a friend the other day on the nature of greed and selfishness, and how it is the collective practice of the world to point out the liabilities and imperfections of others without first addressing their own. We all have, and are faced with contentions in this struggle for competition of life. Therefore, no-one is …

I Have Lived for Laughter

I have lived for laughter and for the splendor of things:  but beguiled by love, of what its possibilities seemed. Yet to what this beginning, did its end now come about: from laughter of years, to  sorrow and tears?   Whenever I dream I am flying high with you, how something unseen would always clip my wings, and send me tumbling back to earth;  Earth, …

The Acquisitions of Happiness

The world’s ultimate desire in its quest for happiness is to acquire things, and that its instinctive obligation to have, and to seek comfort for the pleasures of life is born from the idea that the more things one is able to posses, the better off in life and living one will be - so it would seem. . . …