You Can’t Be A Perfectionist
Ain’t no such thing:
Perfectioning.
You Can’t Be A Perfectionist 2.24.2016
Definitely Didactic; Life Lessons To Be Learned; Life;
Arlene Corwin
You Can’t Be A Perfectionist
24 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in 2016, definitely didactic, lessons to be learned, life Tags: the perfect doesn't exist - at least not on this planet., Why aim at something that doesn't exist?
Everybody Needs A System: correct me if I’m wrong
20 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in 2016, circling round reality, thinking Tags: correct me if I'm wrong
Everybody Needs A System
Everybody needs a system of belief.
If you can’t believe in deity
Then non-theistic thought’s for you.
You’ve plenty there to choose from; thoughts a-plenty,
Thought-through thought, thought through
To give a mind to body, bod’ to mind.
You need root,
frame, name to lean on.
-Isms fall apart, break down, implode,
And yet you have to start somewhere –
Some thought to give you structure;
Theory broad with answers to hard questions;
Connections, forms, corrections
Never ending, ending sometimes.
You need too, the flexibility to turn…
Around, from, to, away; begin anew.
While watching, letting change take place
As if it were a grace with you the center:
After all you’ve got is you, the hat upon your head
Prepared for anything.
Ethics, kindness: you need more.
Death’s door, what came before, what may be after,
Now, the mind in front, behind;
You need systems for the chains of causes, pausal chains,
To help explain the cycles, phases; chance and the inevitable,
Giving in, resistance and how to know
The stable lasting, versus passing.
Everybody needs a ground to work from, stand on.
Everybody needs a system.
Everybody Needs A System 2.20.2016
Circling Round Reality; Thinking About;
Arlene Corwin
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Old (revised)
17 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in 2016, circling round aging Tags: What is 'old'?
Old
What?
Then?
What happened when…?
What? Nothing you envisioned.
Inside: precisioned mind:
Same head, same brain
Known to God alone,
The strain of genus inescapable.
Outside, a stranger mirror says is me;
Stifled by all kinds of blarney.
Old keeps stretching of reach;
The rainbow’s arch you cannot touch;
Olympic torch to hold on high
About which youth has no idea.
Not the doctor newly licensed,
Young policemen skilled and new;
Children, adolescents…
All have heard about it;
All their young ideas untrue.
Old is known
(and hardly that)
By those who flat out own it.
Even then…a what?
Trick of the light, illusion?
Old is a what!
Old 10.5.2015/2.17.2016
Circling Round Aging;
Arlene Corwin
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Three Times S
10 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in 2015, our times our cultureII, the processes II Tags: The needs of our time...
Three Times S
Silence, Stillness, Solitude
Solitude:
Alone’s creative part,
And what we need.
Loneliness? No, only-ness.
No yearning for support –
Earnings of a sort.
No tears, no fears, if only temporarily.
Stillness:
Willed un-movement;
Body/mind and what we need.
Either/or, or one or both:
Calm and peace,
And what we need.
Silence:
Without sound; the space between
The hubbub and reverberations
Of the world we live in:
What we need:
Three times S.
Three Times S 7.24.2015
The Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative II; Our Times, Our Culture II;
Arlene Corwin
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The God Question: It Never Goes Away
08 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
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The God Question: It Never Goes Away
08 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in 2015, God Book II Tags: the God question: it never goes away.
The God Question II (It Never Goes Away)
Why are their laws?
Orderly and scientific, giving guidelines,
Making tidiness from chaos.
Logic looking yet for more:
Th’explored and yet-to-be…
Take a category: love.
Too abstract to pinpoint, like
We ‘in-the-image-of…’
Fact or poetry?
Legend, symbol, history?
Amalgam of each and every
Thinker, mystic, visionary
Always been, often hidden:
Metaphor the only language.
Multi-universes. Well,
‘My Father’s house has many mansions.’
Fine-tuned to existences with functions unlike ours?
Or is it that it/they is/are fine-tuned to mortal powers?
Those hung up on Christian thought
Have never sought Vedanta (or caught up with any other…)
Deity or cant, for It, It doesn’t care. It’s always been.
It knows the ropes. It made the ropes,
Not in compliance with the human want,
What we set store by, but
If we believe or not,
It wouldn’t matter to an Absolute.
When you examine boundless, infinite and ultimate…
Supreme and unconditional…
Consider what is absolute;
First creator, law of nature –
Yeah, a question, yea,
That never goes away.
Always two opposing sides:
The smooth, the friction;
Yin and Yang in every action
Newton’s law:
Every action a reaction
Equal and opposing
Foe and friend; equal and opposing end;
Yea, the question never goes away.
The God Question II (It Never Goes Away) 1.12.2015/re-written 2.8.2016
God Book II;
Arlene Corwin
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Life Can Be A Yoga
06 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in 2015, circling round yoga II
Playing At Invention
I take a nail to smooth and smudge…
It turns into a liner
Flattering the lower lid.
I take what’s handy, looking
At its form and form
An instrument inside my head
Which lends itself to hand
And stays.
Life Can Be A Yoga 7.10.2015
Circling Round Yoga II; Found On Scraps;
Arlene Corwin
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