the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside,

 the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves

 

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, 

and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, 

even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.

 

I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,

A shadow is real, but it’s less real than a rock. 

A dream is real — if it weren’t, it wouldn’t be a dream — but less real than a thing. 

That’s what being real is like.

 

reality is always plural and mutable

 

 When the worst of our fears are realized, when everything we’ve counted on has disappeared, something still drives us to try to fix the past, or to find our future, when the only thing that needs our attention is the present. 

And its infinite possibilities.

 

avoid being seen, which is impossible in the 21st century. 

So at least avoid being memorable

God pt 2 - U2

 Don't believe the devil

I don't believe his book
But the truth is not the same
Without the lies he made up.
Don't believe in excess
Success is to give
Don't believe in riches
But you should see where I live.
I, I believe in love.

Don't believe in forced entry
Don't believe in rape
But every time she passes by
Wild thoughts escape.
Don't believe in Death Row
Skid row or the gangs.
Don't believe in the Uzi
It just went off in my hands.
I, I believe in love.

Don't believe in cocaine
Got a speedball in my head
I could cut and crack you open
Did you hear what I said?
Don't believe them when they tell me
There ain't no cure.
The rich stay healthy
The sick stay poor.
I, I believe in love.

Don't believe in Goldman
His type like a curse
Instant karma's gonna get him
If I don't get him first.
Don't believe that Rock 'n' Roll
Can really change the world
As it spins in revolution
Yeah, it spirals and turns.
I, I believe in love.

Don't believe in the sixties
The golden age of pop
You glorify the past
When the future dries up.
Heard a singer on the radio
Late last night
Says he's gonna kick the darkness
Till it bleeds daylight.
I, I believe in love.

Feel like I'm fallin'
I'm spinnin' on a wheel
It always stops beside a name
A presence I can feel.
I believe in love.
Stop!

"God" - John Lennon

God is a Concept by which we measure our pain
I'll say it again
God is a Concept by which we measure our pain

I don't believe in magic
I don't believe in I-ching
I don't believe in Bible
I don't believe in Tarot
I don't believe in Hitler
I don't believe in Jesus
I don't believe in Kennedy
I don't believe in Buddha
I don't believe in Mantra
I don't believe in Gita
I don't believe in Yoga
I don't believe in Kings
I don't believe in Elvis
I don't believe in Zimmerman
I don't believe in Beatles

I just believe in me, 

Yoko and me, and that's reality

The dream is over
What can I say?
The dream is over
Yesterday

I was the dreamweaver
But now I'm reborn

I was the walrus
But now I'm John

And so, dear friends,
You'll just have to carry on

The dream is over

 

 ancient civilizations would make human sacrifices 

 the run-off from the furnaces would be discharged to water sources like rivers 

 the discharge from the human sacrifices contained lye that would make clothes cleaner than water from any part of the river’s course. 

The locals then used the discovery of lye to invent soap that is actually used to clean clothes.

  without human sacrifice, there would be no progress in humanity 

  the first soap was made of heroes

the process of manufacturing soap is brutal and demands sacrifice because animals have to be slaughtered in the process and bodies harvested to generate the state of cleanliness. 

The process of making soap thus signifies the brutality that exists in the world.

 The product, which is the soap that washes away all the dirt from people’s lives, is also symbolic of the pain and sacrifice that has to be made to keep the world evolving.

Think about the animals used in product testing. Think about the monkeys shot in space. Without their death, their pain, without their sacrifice, we would have nothing

the sacrifices that have to be made to keep the world clean

  

 In a real Dark Night Of The Soul

its is always Three in the Morning 

Day after Day 

3 A.M. eternal

Talking 'bout the Mu Mu
Justified Ancient Liberation Zulu
Got to teach and everything you learn

Will point to the fact that time is eternal

Sample city through Trancentral
Basic face kick elemental
Swings brings new technology

Looking at my watch time 3 A.M.

Got to see that everywhere I turn
Will point to the fact that time is eternal

It's 3 A.M., 3 A.M.,

 It's 3 A.M. eternal

Ocean deep

 

When you reach 200 meters (656 ft), you enter the ocean's Twilight Zone

— an expansive world with almost no light.

It's so black that photosynthesis is no longer possible.

The twilight zone is between 200 and 1,000 meters.

The record for the deepest dive by a human is 332 m (1,090ft).

Beyond this twilight region, at depths of 1000 m (3280 ft), you enter eternal darkness.

This is the Midnight Zone.

— an expansive world that leads down to abyssal plains.

These are reached at a depth of 4000 m (13,000 ft).

Next comes the Hadal Zone

at 6,000 m (19,000 ft).

The deepest part of this zone is the Mariana Trench,

which reaches 10,935 m (35,876 ft) deep

— making it deeper than Mount Everest is tall.

 

 

The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. 

The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. 

He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky

. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel.

 Literature always anticipates life. 

It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

 

It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. 

The stage is too big for the drama

Friday the 13th

 

Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day in Western superstition.

 It occurs when the 13th day of the month in the Gregorian calendar falls on a Friday, which happens at least once every year but can occur up to three times in the same year. 

2015 had a Friday the 13th in February, March, and November, 

 will happen again in 2026;

 2017 through 2020 had two Friday the 13ths;

 2016, 2021 and 2022 had just one Friday the 13th, 

as will 2025; 

2023 and 2024 have two Friday the 13ths.

A month has a Friday the 13th if and only if it begins on a Sunday.

Unluckiness of "13"

One source mentioned for the unlucky nature of the number "13" is a Norse myth about 12 gods having a dinner party in Valhalla. 

The trickster god Loki, who was not invited, arrived as the 13th guest, and arranged for Höðr to shoot Balder with a mistletoe-tipped arrow.

 "Balder died, and the whole Earth got dark. The whole Earth mourned. It was a bad, unlucky day."

 This major event in Norse mythology caused the number 13 to be considered unlucky.

The superstition seems to relate to various things, like the story of Jesus' last supper and crucifixion in which there were 13 individuals present in the Upper Room on the 13th of Nisan Maundy Thursday, the night before his death on Good Friday.

True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness:

 'I am life that wants to live, 

in the midst of life that wants to live”

 

Most people are like sheep. 

Nice, harmless creatures who want nothing more than to be left alone so they can graze. 

But then of course there are wolves. Who want nothing more than to eat the sheep.

But there’s a third kind of person. The sheepdog.

 Sheepdogs have fangs like wolves. But their instinct isn’t predation. It’s protection.

 All they want, what they live for, is to protect the flock.

Wednesday 11th June 2025 - Strawberry Moon

 At midnight, in the month of June, 

I stand beneath the mystic moon  

—Edgar Allan Poe

 

Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. 

Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic

 

There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. 

 

Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: 

withered hearts, 

or empty skulls?

 

Like a half-exposed rotten log

my life, 

which never flowered,

ends barren.

—Minamoto Yorimasa

Summer Haiku

 To reveal how your heart flowers,

sway like the summer grove.
—Tagami Kikusha-Ni,

These silent summer nights
even the stars
seem to whisper.
—Kobayashi Issa,

These brown summer grasses?
The only remains
of "invincible" warriors ...
—Matsuo Basho,

Forbearing the night
with its growing brilliance:
the summer moon.
—Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

On a hot summer night
dreams and reality
merge.
—Takahama Kyoshi,

The summer butterfly
has to look sharp
to make its getaway.
—Takahama Kyoshi,

The moon still appears,
though far from home:
summer vagrant.
—Matsuo Basho

The legs of the cranes
have been shortened
by the summer rains.
―Matsuo Basho

A summer river:
disdaining the bridge,
my horse gallops through water.
―Masaoka Shiki

 

Spring being a tough act to follow, 

God created June

 June is the gateway to summer

"Summer Rain"

Whispering our goodbyes
Waiting for a train
I was dancing with my baby
In the summer rain
I can hear him saying
Nothing will change
Come dancing with me baby
In the summer rain

I remember the rain on our skin
And his kisses hotter than the
Santa Ana winds
Whispering our goodbyes
Waiting for a train
I was dancing with my baby
In the summer rain

I remember laughing til we almost cried
(There at station that night)
I remember looking in his eyes

Oh my love, it's you and that I dream of
Oh my love, since that day
Somewhere in my heart I'm always
Dancing with you in the summer rain

Doesn't matter what I do now
Doesn't matter what I say
Somewhere in my heart I'm always
Dancing with you in the summer rain

I can hear the whistle
Military train
I was dancing with my baby
In the summer rain
I can here him singing
Ooh "Love Is Strange"
Come dance with me baby
In the summer rain

I remember the rain pouring down
And we poured our hearts out
As the train pulled out
I can see my baby
Waving from the train
It was last time that I saw him
In the summer rain

Every time I see the lightening
Every time I hear the thunder
Every time I close the window
When this happens in the summer
Oh the night is so inviting
I can feel that you are so close
I can feel you when the wind blows
Blows right through my heart

Every night and every day now
Though I know you've gone away
Somewhere in my heart I'm always
Dancing with you in the summer rain

Summer Sunshine Song by The Corrs ‧ 2004

 

Everyone's changing, I stay the same, I'm
A solo cello outside a chorus
I've got a secret
It's time for me to tell, you've been keeping me warm

Just sweet beginnings and bitter endings
In coffee city, we borrowed Heaven
Don't give it back, I've never felt so wanted
Are you taking me home?

You tell me you have to go?

In the heat of summer sunshine
I miss you like nobody else
In the heat of summer sunshine
I kiss you and nobody needs to know

Now that you've left me, there's no returning
I keep comparing, you're always winning
I try to be strong, but you'll never be more wanted
Will you make me at home?

Don't tell me you have to go

In the heat of summer sunshine (summer sunshine)
I miss you like nobody else
In the heat of summer sunshine (summer sunshine)
I kiss you, and nobody needs to know

To sweet beginnings and bitter endings
In coffee city, we borrowed Heaven
Don't give it back
Winter is coming, and I need to stay warm

In the heat-

In the heat of summer sunshine (summer sunshine)
I miss you like nobody else
In the heat of summer sunshine (summer sunshine)
I kiss you, and nobody knows

In the heat of summer sunshine (summer sunshine)
I miss you like nobody else
In the heat of summer sunshine (summer sunshine)
I kiss you and nobody needs to know

Summer sunshine, sunshine, sunshine

Hot in the City Song by Billy Idol ‧ 1982

 It's hot here at night

Lonely, black and quiet
On a hot summer night
Don't be afraid
Of the world we made
On a hot summer night

'Cause when a long-legged lovely walks by
Yeah you can see the look in her eye
Then you know that it's

Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight
Tonight
Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight
Tonight

For all the dreams and schemes
People are as they seem
On a hot summer night
Don't be no fun
Don't forget you're young
On a hot summer night

A sometime someone you're not
Don't wait to see what you got
'Cause you know that you're

Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight
Tonight
Alright
Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight
Tonight

Well I'll walk until my feet drop
I'm a train when I'm hateful
Yeah, lay right down now
And I'll ride until your head breaks
I'm a-walkin' 'til my brain pops
I will move with the beat now
I'm a chain 'round an A-bomb
I'm a ribbon in the heat now
New York!

Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight
Tonight
New York
Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight
Tonight
Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight
Tonight
Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight
Tonight
Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight
Tonight
Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight
Tonight