Lucid sententia XXI

 Belief is a way of summoning the will.

Lucid Sententia XX

A finite length of time, no matter how great, pales in comparison with infinitude. Seconds are in the same class as centuries. In this sense each moment is like an entire lifetime.

Lucid Sententia XIX

Out of the septillions of living organisms coming in and out of existence in the history of life on Earth, only a tiny fraction are those with whom we have the privilege to coexist. They are special. We are special, as a kind of temporal family.

Lucid Sententia XVIII

Blows, unlike kisses, leave marks on both flesh and soul, as memories of their acquisition, thereby advising prudence to avoid them. Hence the impenetrable walls and protective shells gradually accreted with time. Those provide shelter from the lethal force of blows, but also are inadvertently impervious to the delicate brushes of kisses.

Lucid Sententia XVII

Those who can clearly see impermanence as an intrinsic quality of nature, and live with a lucid accompaniment of this truth, will have their memories project a rich multitude of possibilities onto the present thus rendering it richer, and as such more mysterious and worthy of wonder.

Lucid Sententia XVI

Living systems are some of the most complex forms of being that that have emerged in our universe. In the mandane vastness of space and vacuum punctured occasionally with slightly more sophisticated collections of matter such as stars and galaxies, living beings as far as we know, stand apart in the sheer self sustaining complexity.

Being surrounded by life we have grown to take its complexity for granted; from swatting a mosquito, through slaughtering animals whose flesh we feed on, to finally killing of humans we deprive the universe of its most sophisticated creations.

Lucid Sententia XV

A poet suffers in a profound and sophisticated manner. Hence the capacity to report on his suffering with the eloquence of an expert.

Lucid sententia XIV

We're but mysterious collections of particular instances of universal tendencies.

Lucid Sententia XIII

Life is our drug of choice; we keep on taking it despite its painful side effects.

Lucid Sententia XI

Emptiness whispers in riddles.