“If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.” ― Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
“In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Leviathan
dear friend,
i couldn’t but write
’cos i keep thinking of you
the more i strive
the less i understand your case
the more frustrated
i become.
life is not flat
as you think
like is janus like
two-faced.
tell me!
can you recognize smiles
if there are no tears?
can living be
in the absence of death?
where will honesty
and truth stand
if deceit and lies
do not exist?
if distrust does not
spread her wares
in the market of life
how can trust be radiated ?
tell me, my friend,
can we recognize steadfastness
if we have never met
disappointment?
think, my friend,
think i beseech you
is life not two parts
of the same thing?
identical beans of the same pod?
why then, do we denigrate evil
as if goodness can exist alone?
is hate not love’s alternate sister?
tell me if the rain
did not dance on our roofs
can we recognize
the power of the sun?
can we ever plumb
the depth of tranquility
if the cacophony of noise is voided?
tell me,
my friend tell me
can this world
exists in monochrome
of just virtue or vices?
will it be the school
it is expected to be?
can we learn
if there are no opposites?
how nice do you think
it will be?
if stinginess is the sole monarch
who will soothe the sores with
generosity?
are light and darkness
not the same aspects
of the same thing, friend?
can we ever understand health
if sickness were not there
can we recognize the sober
without the drunk’s antics?
so how can benevolence
be rewarded
if we don’t have malevolence
to judge it with?
so my friend
please think again
don’t take that action
don’t pour our the water
from the gourd.
what happened
is just the other side.
i mean the twin fold of existence
it is for you to learn.
if not, dear friend,
you wouldn’t
be here…learning
i mean learning.
or
don’t you know
this is the only REALM
where you can learn?
So, all learning materials
must be here
including those things
making us wish
we were not HERE
ayékòótóFMD 