there’s this dream, then I’m awake.
Posted in Thoughts on God on Jun 17th, 2011
We spend our lives wishing for more. The only thing that can bring us happiness through this innate action is knowledge. Knowledge is limitless. It can lead to the only true salvation: Gnosis. The truth is the only thing with any value in life, despite its subjectivity. Wisdom is found when truth and knowledge meet [...]
Posted in asides on Mar 22nd, 2011
Forever forth, you shall grow, learn, love, and hate. You may only hope that you do more of the former, than the latter.
Posted in poetry on Mar 21st, 2011
Again, you were warned. I’ve felt very poetic lately. —- I forget that I’m falling away from you. Please hold me. Don’t let go. I can’t stand to feel the air on my skin. —- Jack Lhasa I Listen. Poetry
Posted in Fragments on Dec 9th, 2010
Life is bitter sweet. Love comes and goes, then comes again. It’s strange the way that something so simple can become so complicated. Here I am, trying to live that life less ordinary, but forces push in all directions. David Allan Coe’s” Jack Daniel’s If You Please” screams out as poignant and sad and the [...]
Posted in poetry on Sep 2nd, 2010
Posted in Fragments on Jun 15th, 2010
There’s this dream, then I’m awake. How many hundreds of times have I written that line in my life? Nearing the thousands at this point I’d imagine. But here I am again, there’s dream, but I’m awake. A woman I trust betrays me, leaves me alone and wandering. Three women of exquisite beauty play with [...]
Posted in Fragments on May 10th, 2010
She haunted my dreams again last night. Two nights in a row, after seven years of silence. She ran from me, and I chased her. Perhaps I was angry that she had left me alone so long, I’m not sure. But I lost her at the docks. I dove into the water after her, but [...]
Posted in Basic Ideology on Mar 1st, 2010
I am guilty, Lord, but I am also a lover — and I am one of your best people, as you know; and yea tho I have walked in many strange shadows and acted crazy from time to time and even drooled on many High Priests, I have not been an embarrassment to you… -Dr. [...]
Wow, I had no idea how long it had been since I had posted an entry here. What can I say, sometimes life just catches up with you. This is not to say that I stopped writing all together. I’ve made a lot of headway on my two big fiction projects, The Cost of Magic, [...]
Posted in Basic Ideology on Dec 11th, 2009
The way of the Sufi is to embrace the joy of the essence of God in everything, and every aspect of everything. The best times and the worst times. Rumi expresses this supreme joy: I am a lover of both His benevolence and severity! Amazing it is that I’m in love with these opposites! Jack [...]
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