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.
---<--@

Seeking the Seeker

I seek the seeker;
the one who I am seeking;
the one of the One.

I am to my self
when self is empty of me -
I become my self.

Many, few.
Few, then one.
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Coming into your own sunrise -

What is
most important

is self.

Knowing this,
one knows we are many.

What is
most important to self
is true self.

Knowing this,
one knows we are one.
---<--@

Shattered Shield

No longer, the dread -

sun is tired and souls are bled...

the sacred has fled!

Earth, sea, sky are dead -

Spirit dwells so far away;

thou wept no more.

Thy vision

lay shattered!

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Vision Quest

Son of mine,

the wilderness is within thyself!

So must you look

- no further -

until you have found

your own true self first.

The wilderness is within yourself

and across this forbidding expanse

of aridity and dark desolation,

you must reach out

with all your soul

and with all your love and might

that you may return again

- into yourself.

So be still, my son,

be surrounded by the Stillness

and in the quiet of thy heart - know.

The wilderness is within yourself

and so must you cease

from all thy useless wandering

until the God Who journeys to find thee

have completely arrived in thee -

that you may know where thou must go!

=^.^=

Milky Way Road

The road up ahead

unknown to all but myself

stretches out of sight.

I look behind me

into the void as I walk

the Milky Way Road.

Up ahead of me

in the distant horizon

heaven and earth meet.

I walk on

to the stars.

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Per Ardua ad Astra - Through Adversity to the Stars

This is the motto of the Royal Air Force and other Commonwealth Air Forces particularly the Royal Australian Air Force.

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.

Learning is for People

As a child, starshine,

you aspired to be your dreams.

Remember thy youth.

For you are more than

what you know, my beloved.

By learning, you grow.

Youth is in thy soul.

'Tis an innocence you keep,

to let you become...

Love requires knowledge.

For what you love becomes you.

So too must you grow.

Remember

thy dreaming.

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Especially for the graduating class of 2012 -

Learning is not a product.

Learning is a privilege.

It is never bought,

it is seldom taught,

it is transmitted by a good life.

We pay for educational services

not for knowledge.

We pay dues not for learning

but for tuition.

If you want to become happy,

study not to make money.

Learning to make it profitable,

is undertaken not for profit.

Study for happiness.

Learning is for gladness.

All things will follow suit

when you follow thy dreaming

for all things have a tendency of coming together

when you work the work of becoming.

Education is the right of the youth,

teaching the duty of the custodians of the youth -

the human family, the community at all levels,

every authentic institutions of learning,

both private as well as public and at all levels,

above all shining examples of leadership and service

in authentic human entrepreneurship,

and in responsible government at all levels,

in our police services, our emergency services,

our volunteer services, our noble military

for all of these efficiently transmit learning -

all of these effectively teach.

Let this be our culture.

Let this be our custom.

Learning is for people.

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Why is it that it was recently reported (here in the Philippines) that we have too many nursing graduates this commencement year?

Because we tell our youth to study for profit. We drive them to study for money. This kind of culture actually forbids learning. It produces brokenness and leads to despair.