A New Voice for Old Thoughts

i look up into the night sky
and see a thousand eyes staring back
and all around these golden beacons
i see nothing but black

i feel a way of something beyond them
i don't see what i can feel
if vision is the only validation
then most of my life isn't real 
-Sam Sparro (Black&Gold)


Very true, he said. 
Of this then, which every soul of man pursues and makes the end of all his actions, having a presentiment that there is such an end, and yet hesitating because neither knowing the nature nor having the same assurance of this as of other things..
-Plato:  The Republic (Politeia) VI, 505e

Hope, Heart Sickness, and Real Life

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.(prov 13:12)

The American culture has insulated itself from heart sickness the same way it has from every other discomfort. In order to avoid disappointment hopes are kept to a minimum. The true dreamer is an endangered species. Those that dare try and sometimes fail with all their passion are few and far between. As a result that “tree of life” is never reached and the highest point of earthly human experience is left unachieved. But the safety culture reaches for is an illusion, for hopelessness brings malaise more destructive than any hope deferred.  Hope big, fail big, reach for the fulfillment of the greater, deeper longing and find real life when you reach it.