Poem: WHEN GREAT TREES FALL by Maya Angelou

When Great Trees Fall by Maya AngelouWhen great trees fall,rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants lumber after safety. When great trees fall in forests, small things recoil into silence, their senses eroded beyond fear.When great souls die, the air around us becomes light, rare, sterile. We breathe,ContinueContinue reading “Poem: WHEN GREAT TREES FALL by Maya Angelou”

True Soul Mate

“Life is similar to circling circle. Night-day, failure-success, tragedy-comedy are all circling. On the periphery, life is shaking (down-up, blamed-praised, bad mood-good mood). But at the center, there is no shaking, there is only silence and peace. This is the honey of life. And inner contentment is the inner energy which guide one to theContinueContinue reading “True Soul Mate”

The people asked for a king: Selling ourselves

Today’s king is celebrity culture. Many are voluntarily enslaved to it. The pervasive idea is: You’re no one unless a lot of people know you and want to be like you. People worship at the altar of images. {Follow the link to read the full article.}

The sexing of media and the dumbing of the public

At a certain point, higher education becomes another process for dumbing down, in that students are taught to “think” in a certain way that makes them appropiately “academic”. As long as you are attaining knowledge, it’s good. However, there is a peak to everything. After the peak, the more you acquire does you less and less good. So it is with education.