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many believe that love can be found in another a personal love a satisfaction in another's embrace yet often this appears as psychologically immature a subliminal projection for security when unsure of oneself and one's world before love can be found in another love must be found within oneself oneself as a creative process oneself as the energy of galaxies devoid of race and social origin absent of wealth and beauty as barometers of importance position cowers before direction a tabula rasa to physical-intellectual-emotional-spiritual enrichment and excellence people habitually wrap-up their potential with dogmatic articles of faith and seek comfort in mediocre self-satisfaction content in chains in a cave peeking at shadows they do not grasp or focus upon the cultivation of joy in ambitious self-actualization to step out of the shell of existence and ascend the stairs closer to cosmic essence in the development of our innate potential we need both competition and cooperation a balance of opposition and symbiosis not total competition as this spurs survival of the fittest selfish demolition of others and the world and not devoid of competition either as that retards innovation and progress with a lethargic ignorance of self and society civilization thrives on dynamic antagonism as competition and cooperation communicate in synergistic tongues to catalyze higher levels of socio-cultural synthesis individuals thrive on creativity curiosity perseverance and realize on the path to achieve excellence that our only true competition appears to be ourselves and the constant challenge to exceed our previous limitations other individuals emerge to challenge inspire motivate us to reach our goals and we support others in a united enterprise when our consciousness expands to realize that our individual abilities and talents link with others to form a socio-cultural mosaic a Buddha-field of individuals a planetary and universal entelechy of interwoven matrices that curve through space-time and unfold dimensions upon our liquid reality to mutate us in to more evolved stages of existence a love of higher principles a desire to evolve into a perfect Platonic form a wish for constellations of cooperation a rejection of feudalism the agricultural vampire that drained the strength of billions for centuries a rejection of industrialism the dinosaur of mass society that imprisoned the proletariat to the robotic assembly line a rejection of corporatism the ravenous beast of the global village that captures life and creativity in cages with electronic mirrors the postmodern planetary organism aches for a renewed and continual judgment of values of diversiform aesthetic qualities to select a future to reach out in strength and solidarity in awareness and determination to contribute every thought and action to energetically augment the vitality and beautiful strength of creation quantum jump start a tomorrow · · · · · ·
Resources Poetry on Swans Scott Orlovsky is a World History & Cultures, and an American History teacher at Clifton High School in New Jersey. He has a BA in History from the Johns Hopkins University and a MA in History from the University of Colorado. Orlovsky's writing has appeared in the Greenwich Village Gazette and he regularly contributes his columns to Swans. Do you wish to share your opinion? We invite your comments. E-mail the Editor. Please include your full name, address and phone number. If we publish your opinion we will only include your name, city, state, and country. Please, feel free to insert a link to this article on your Web site or to disseminate its URL on your favorite lists, quoting a few paragraphs or providing a summary. However, please DO NOT steal, scavenge or repost this work on the Web. © Scott Orlovsky 2003. All rights reserved. |
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