from green to black

A god in ruins

Man is a god in ruins.
When men are innocent, life shall be longer and pass
into the immortal as gently as we awake from dreams.
Now the world would be insane and rabid if those
disorganisations should last for hundreds of years.
It is kept in check by DEATH and INFANCY. infancy
is the perpetual messiah when it comes to the arms
of fallen man, and pleads with them to return to paradise.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

and here's another one, kindda like transcendentalism
although the emphasis that we are our own 'buddha'
scares me a little. well here's to something more neutral

to laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent
people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation
of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave
the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden
patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life
has breathed easier because you lived.
this is to have suceeded.
- ralph waldo emerson

scared (and there i go again) that one would be exactly as
what one fears one would be. would such subconscious
dictate what the future would bring as much as ones
concious effort to achieve ones ends?

posted by green unseen @ 7:52 PM