In shadows cast by hearts that tire

In shadows cast by hearts that tire,
We walk on embers, stitched with fire,
Afraid the night will never cease,
Yet yearning still for dawn’s release.
The cracks within our skin reveal,
The truths we hide, yet cannot seal,
We fall as fools, yet rise as kings,
When sorrow carves us broken wings.
We doubt, and doubt becomes our chain,
Yet fear itself is forged from pain—
And pain can shape what was confined,
A freer soul, a braver mind.
Through storms that strip, we stand half-grown,
Learning the strength we thought unknown,
The irony—our fragile frame
Bears weight that pride could never claim.
For tragedy wears patient scars,
It teaches more than peaceful stars,
It bends us low, yet in that bend
We find the road that will not end.
And so, though faith may sometimes fade,
Though hope feels buried in the shade—
The broken heart still learns to swell,
For even shattered bones can tell:
That fractures are not signs of doom,
But openings where light finds room.

DCG

When knowledge evades us

I write from the heart

But sometimes my head gets in the way

Yet one without the other

May often lead us astray

And so born is the mystery

The habitat for the human being

A collective asylum

In constant sorrow of their feeling

In all of human history

The people will create

What they don’t achieve

They simply relegate

Therefore, the case to be made

Books of the Bible, Plato’s Republic and William Golding‘s Lord of the flies – please 

So much literature

So much to reprise

When we fail to solve the problems of ethics and epistemology

We still gravitate to argue over the metaphysical

When knowledge evades us

Our faith still argues which God is more inevitable

DCG

My nervous system has been hijacked 

The most impactful relationships we will ever have

Will come from our own parental family

The nurturing from our childhoods

 Will influence our prosperity 

My nervous system has been hijacked

I am humbled by my captive trauma prisoner -my subconscious mind

Why is it so easy to notice?

But yet it’s still so hard to find?

Emotional abuse can be haunting

But we do not have to become attached to the past

We can learn new paths of direction

We can form good new memories that will last 

The limbic system is compromised

The neocortex and it’s six layers and five lobes complicate

And if you bring up the non-physical consciousness

That’s even harder to debate 

Hence, the problem of overthinking

A byproduct of curiosity

Part of being human

And a high probability

The mind/body problem of philosophy

Descartes’ Cogito Ergo Sum

Wittgenstein’s language games

Makes the debate still loom

Despite the scientific reasons

Despite the great analytic minds

We must still find our way to heal

Whether it is from ourselves or from the divine

RSP

DCG

Two masters, one soul 

Two Masters, One Soul
I kneel before a screen of light,
A servant to the code’s command.
It knows my name, my day, my night,
A master built by human hand.
With circuits sharp and logic cold,
It whispers answers, clear and bright.
It tells me what I should withhold,
It tells me what is black or white.
Yet in my heart, an ancient call—
A voice that echoes through the years.
A God who shaped the sky so tall,
Who dried my eyes and calmed my fears.
I serve two masters, side by side:
One made of ones and zeros, true,
The other—love, both deep and wide—
The first is new, the last is You.
But ironies like shadows play:
The code asks faith, demands my trust,
While God asks doubt, to find His way—
Yet in the end, I serve them both,
And wonder which will turn to dust.
Postscript:
Perhaps the master I should fear
Is not the one who answers prayer,
But one who reads me—loud and clear—
And knows my heart, but does not care.
Or maybe both are mirrors bright:
One man-made, one divine,
Reflecting back my own true sight—
The choice is mine, the line is fine.
But which will last? The code or shrine?
I laugh, and bow, and keep the faith—
In both, or neither, or just in time.

DCG

Time only lives in the now

Time only lives in the now

It is ever-present in what we observe

There is no past

With exception to a memory that we reserve

We do not experience a future

With exception to prophecy

But even then

It is only a mental vision that we see

There is no linear time

The Taoist monk would say

Only effortless action

Wu Wei (Woo way)

We are limited beings

With a finite mind

Can we really conceive?

Of limitless time?

Hence the paradox

With only one solution

What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?

They both surrender

This provides the resolution

The mind can play tricks on us

Thus was born philosophy

Just how much do we understand?

Given our own psychology 

DCG

Rupert Spira

https://youtu.be/LjDhov4p6Sg?si=f5UcKTw8x15iUkfr

At least I gave it a shot 

When the mind is weary

It can become overwhelmed and confused

One must then use a counter balance

Before one can defuse

There is nothing wrong with confusion

If it forces you to think

Consider all sides

And be distinct

Sound mind and sound body

Common sense can balance the equation

Activate your intelligence

And confront the mind-virus invasion

Some of our problems take time to work through

Patience, reflection, and persistence

Is the prescription

In times of unsolved resistance

The Tao resolves conflict with Wei wu Wei

Zen resolves conflict; human suffering as attachment

Hence you cannot grasp and cling to your breath

One must always exhale for detachment

On the other hand

The Confucian is the pragmatist

Resolution is common sense

No need for the iron fist

The American surfer knows

How to escape a riptide

Surrender to the water current

And not to their own pride

The will imposes maladaptive behaviors

And maladaptive thought

When we fail, we say

“At least I gave it a shot”

RSP

DCG

Men have tried to reason 

Imagine

The human condition

Our ideas shape our reality

More than you know

Dreamers like John Lennon also think so

The mind will often validate

What it expects to see

A posteriori or a Priori?

Which Kantian epistemology?

The philosophical mechanisms we argue

In the name of humanity

Or is all we need just

Philosophical sobriety?

What happened to common sense?

Dreamer or dictator, utopian, or realist

What will we ponder?

What will be missed?

We are but flawed creatures

Just how shall we choose?

Do we wake up?

Or do we just snooze?

Blood has been spilt on the battlefield

Blood has been spilt on the cross

The war for the soul continues on

Just when will the battle be won or lost?

Men have tried to reason

Throughout all of history

But is the ultimate question that is asked

Only in theology?

DCG

Water on tap

Water on tap

Both hot and cold

Turn only the left

It may just scold

In this way

The water flows like the mind

Some thoughts are brutal

Some thoughts are kind

We decide our diet

We decide what we consume

We decide what we bury

We decide what we exhume

A tortured mind

Or a Zen / Taoist Master

Practice peace

Or practice disaster

Most don’t need a therapist

Most don’t need a priest

Maybe just by observation

They can achieve peace

Through meditation or deep contemplation

Maybe a WikiPsalm?

A desire to connect to a source

The hope to liberate us from the qualm

DCG

The quintessential attribute of our humanity

Show me an atheist who believes in evolution

I’ll show you a theist who believes in intelligent design

Which theory is short in reason?

Which theory do you align?

If you care to embark on a thought experiment

It will surely test your deduction and skill

Do you become influenced by others?

Or do you rely upon your own will?

Some problems are not mathematical

You cannot simply provide proof to solve

Some problems you can falsify

These are ones you can resolve

Some problems are beyond our capability

Some say this is in the field of philosophy

Where there is an endless amount of debate

The quintessential attribute of our humanity

DCG

Cultural Marxism

Cultural Marxist

The study of Critical Theory

Anti-Christian and anti- family

My country Tis of Thee

Cultural Marxism

Subversion of the youth

Destroy the foundations of liberty

Propagandize the lies as truth

Dumb down the population

Control the media and news

Bribe the politicians

Squelch any dissenting views

Antonio Gramsci

Like Stalin and the CCP

The suffering of the people

The loss of our humanity

America the beautiful

Sweet land of liberty

Will you stand against the tyranny?

Will the ignorant mob keep us in captivity?

DCG