Truth - what is it?

[Guest guest]

Truth is always rational if sometimes illogical.

Truth is always simple, sometimes so simple we in the West can not grasp it totally.

Truth is always a matter of the heart:

take care

john

[Guest superbluehaze]

"With all things and in all things , we are relatives."

An Indian Prayer

" Oh great spirit, whose voice I hear in the winds,

and whose breath gives life to all the world

hear me for I am weak and small

I need your strngth and wisdom."

"Let me walk in beauty

and make my eyse ever behold

the red and purple sunset."

"Make my hands respect the things you have made

and my ears sharp to hear your voice."

"Make me wise, so that I may understand the things you have taught my people."

"Let me learn the leassons you have hidden in every leaf and rock."

"I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy - myself"

"Make me always ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes."

"So when life fades, as the fading sunset,

my Spirit may come to you without shame."

john

[Earthman]

thats nice man really grsps the heart

here is one of me favourite ones

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

Take kindly to the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Max Ehrmann c.1920

hope you enjoy this

[Guest superbluehaze]

it is a loverly poem I believe the author is unknown but he or she was a monk from the middle ages:

take carejohn

[flowers to the people]

and so,

what does it mean to be anything?

what is truth?

well let me say this,

truth is always simple.

it always right in front of our faces, though we mat not see it, and many of us never do.

To see truth one must realise, we are nothing;

our lives are nothing, except what we of our lives.

The things we value, the joys we affirm and our sorrows.

To be a Strain Hunter is to love, and if we love then we are human and on our to being angels.

take care,

john