The Loan

All knowledge is borrowed that we might obtain to the Truth
and work out in ourselves an understanding of all things.
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The mind is a cup
and with knowledge it is filled
until it is full.

It becomes useless.
Not because it is a cup.
Do you understand?

When you know,
you let go...

(...until the cup knows it is a cup.)

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Knowledge that is kept like a treasure rots,
cursing with blindness instead of blessing with sight

But knowledge that is given, in word, deed, and prayer,
instead of impoverishing the giver, multiplies the gifts.



For truth once gained is possessed forever
and understanding once obtained is forever endowed.

But all knowledge returns again and again to the LORD;
like a river, it runs; like a stream, it flows,
keeping all things, teaching all things,
bearing all things in hope.



So when you think about something, let go.

Let go, let go, and let go.

Let go until it all comes back to you by your letting go.

Then you will always have understanding.
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To Thine Own Self Be True

There's a million ways
to live and a million ways
to die, O my soul!

But the way of Truth
is one and the lie that kills
is one, O my soul!

To thine own
self be true.
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There is only one nearness and it ascends to the Truth.

There is only one distance and it descends to the void.

The Walk of Life

Walk the walk of life!

Neither seek nor avoid strife...

say peace, go through it.

The road you must take

is the path you must make, friend,

that leads to freedom.

Ascend the mountain!

Make the path yourself and climb...

and you will find - you.

Set your heart

on the LORD!

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Ministering Spirits

Angels are Presence,
God is why Angels have wings -
they bear winged truth.

Angels witness Light
that Man may understand - That -
which can not be known.

They face the
face of God.
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Press with Humanity

First, know where we stand.

Know what makes us a nation -

our vision and path.

Then, know where you stand.

Understand where we're going -

freely, humanly...

Finally,

report it.

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Get the facts -

1. Know where we stand - the reality of the nation.
2. Know where you stand - your right to your own interpretation.
3. Report it - seek to add to the conversation.

Without number 1, anarchy.

Without number 2, tyranny.

Without number 3, fantasy.

All of them together, press with humanity.

Media serves the truth. The truth serves the people.

Versus

That is to say, the press is not a separate entity with the nation. The nation is - as it were, the branch that we are all sitting on.

Press freedom protects its nation from ignorance of itself and an enlightened nation protects the freedom of its press.

Jefferson wins.

Evil Inspiration

How does the heart see
that rejoice in the darkness
and evil profit?

The single-hearted
in seeking imperfecty
God and God alone -

Abandons
the darkness.
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Do not be by evil inspired!

For we profit not from evil,
my dear friend,
but from the good;
our motivation being derived
from purposes that are good,
our hopes being anchored upon things
that are true and therefore, good,
and the wings of our surrender to prayer
being ever vigilant and discerning
in its ascent
to the one Giver of all good things.

For evil no longer hold us captive.
We have come to know it
and forever bless the LORD for His Light.
Therefore, we seek now to unknow it
upon paths of repentance
that lead away from darkness
and into peace -
peace in our hearts -
peace with our fellow human beings -
peace with all of heaven -
and peace with our God.

Excerpted from Salutation #5

Old Compliant

Flee Old Compliant!

We, the People, command thee -

Let our Country free!

Thy wicked reign ends -

Our Nation march not for thee!

Let our People free!

After Night

cometh Day...

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"...akala ko batis, yun pala kanal..."

(from the song, "Akala" by Parokya ni Edgar)

Old Compliant is the false image of Old Defiant, my people.

It is everything we are not supposed to be by virtue of our nationhood.

It is everything we are not purposed to be by the will of the LORD, our God, the one Sovereign of all nations.

Unconquered

DREAM, my precious Starshine,
and be thankful for the dreaming
more than the dream itself -

For as tomorrow remains unwritten
yet every hope is made secure
so trust you must in thy dreaming
more than in thy dream itself
for as the eagle soars with wings
knowing not how it must fly
so must your own freedom become
more than what can be held by hands:

Thy freedom, dear Starshine,
like thy dream and thy dreaming
is a thing held not by grip
but a thing beheld by thy releasing
for to hold freedom tightly
like it is to deny it's flight
is to lose it entirely.

For thy freedom walks
upon the unconquered grounds
and wills to take it's flight
untrammeled and untamed.

So seek of thy freedom,
my precious Starshine,
but in thy seeking know -
here and Now,
that freedom lives in the giving
like every dream is in the dreaming
for it is always in the giving
that we become free.
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Freedom that is free is free indeed.

Law

From Babel was born
the need for human accord;
a longing for peace...

Within human hearts
exists the Eternal Law:
the map of our hope...

Peace descends
from the Law.
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At Babel, the Law of Man was confounded by God.

Release

This life is warfare,
the ancient bondage of sin:
what then is freedom?

Our release is Truth
that break the chains of slav'ry;
giving to be free.

To let God
is release.
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Freedom that is free is free indeed!

Sword of the Soldier

This sword is sharp
not because there is a sword,
for what is a sword?

A sword is nothing
without the will that weilds it;
a heart of courage.

This sword strikes
against War!
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To the noble hearted soul,

in every person of the soldier,

virtue is the real steel.

The spirit of his sword

lives apart from its base metal

and becomes his rank and distinction.

For every soldier's sword instructs -

The steel of its truth is the art of its peace.

Excalibur in flames!

The Ascent

Is life consequence?
Or is life choice lived freely?
How the mount ascends...

Only when you know
what truth there is in the good,
shall your prayers rise.

But evil
shall descend.
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Truthfulness

When you speak, take heed,
do not curse others with lies,
and beguile the weak.

Do not sunder truth,
and mislead the wayfarer,
with a serpent's tongue.

Be sincere,
speak thy truth.
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Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

- Proverbs 18: 21

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

- Proverbs 10: 18

Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

- Proverbs 13: 3

But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person.

- Matthew 15: 18

Light Up the World

Being a Christian

is not a definition,

not just static words...

Our strength is the Word!

Let seep into thy marrow:

We are what we act!

Express it

like the light!

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"If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire!"

- St. Catherine of Siena

"You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.

Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lampstand, where it gives light to all in the house.

Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father."

- Mat 5: 14-16

Jesus Christ is True Light!

Winged Truth

Our LORD speaks to us,
in the silence, without words,
in truth, swift and winged.

In the calm, He walks,
in the lull of day, He calls,
those who hear, obey.

Lightning speaks,
then thunder.
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Ache

When I speak my heart,
I ache - yearning to be heard,
I bare my longing...

I profess my hope...
truth, the language of my soul -
in witness of faith.

I ache, tell,
all is well.
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Speak

When you speak, take heed,
do not curse others with lies,
and beguile the weak.

Do not sunder truth,
and mislead the wayfarer,
with a serpent's tongue.

Be sincere,
speak thy truth.
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Happy

Happy is the heart
who has awakened to Heart
opening itself...

For darkness is fled
when we must in believing
give in to Truelight.

Jesus Christ
is Truelight.
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Dreams

We live in our dreams,
dreaming of a better world,
and then we grow up...

Why must our dreams die
because the awakening
is painful, my friend?

Dreams grow up
to be born.
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Truth

What is truth, Starshine?

Is truth a bond or is it...

a sweet, sweet release?

The truth sets free by

holding the soul captive in

the Heart in the heart.

Truth is love.

Love is truth.

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