How To Avoid A Noisy Soul
How do you keep a soft heart in an exhausting
culture where a little colorblind boy in
baseball cap with coffee in one hand
and a gun in the other gets a viral hard-on
and we’re the ones who stroked him?
How do you keep your sanity in a crazy
time when self-hatred poses as forward thinking
and we rip off every god-given outer detail so we can look at one another with what, super duper x-ray vision? In other words, how do you avoid a noisy soul? Our thousand answers converge here: You must keep something beautiful in your mind. Hold it there like a treasure. When thieves come, and they will, bare your teeth and growl and bark NO. Such meekness will walk away with everything (wink).
and we rip off every god-given outer detail so we can look at one another with what, super duper x-ray vision? In other words, how do you avoid a noisy soul? Our thousand answers converge here: You must keep something beautiful in your mind. Hold it there like a treasure. When thieves come, and they will, bare your teeth and growl and bark NO. Such meekness will walk away with everything (wink).
Wow. Just Wow.
Yeats again:
We can make our minds so like clear water that beings gather around us, that they may see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even fiercer life because of our quiet.
My solace and sanity has been to do just this:
“You must keep something beautiful in your mind.
Hold it there like a treasure.”
John, your words shout loudest in these whispers.
“You must keep something beautiful in your mind.
Hold it there like a treasure.”
There is great wisdom in these words. Thank you.
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Best advice and sharpest truths I’ve heard all day. Thanks.
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“Keep something beautiful in your mind” – like your poetry. Thank you.