Crossing Over into 2013

I believe we're coming to a point as a species of humanity where 

what we don't know is becoming more and more important 

than what we do know.

Remember,

what's ahead of us in 2013 

shall largely depend 

on what we shall be willing to leave behind 

in 2012.

This - in turn - shall depend 

on the completeness of our remembrances 

as a nation; 

on how much of ourselves 

we have managed to gather up 

into the present - together this time -

as we cross the line of today 

into tomorrow.

Are we ready to cross over?

---<--@

Salutation #156

You can not see love
yet you feel it when it's near
and even more so when it is far...

The spiritual soul
implicitly understands this.

But to the unspiritual
this only brings confusion.



(Rich in all things, Rich above all things)

Starshine -

Is Mankind 
truly experiencing 
an awakening in the soul? 

We can feel our way
toward an answer to this
by how we learn to come to love
what we can no longer see.

We can not see virtue
but we can understand its worth.

AND if this love of the spiritual
overcomes our love for the material,
far from nullifying our national prosperity,
it will cause our people to become rich indeed -
rich in all things, rich above all things.

Reality is that our Reality is
99% invisible to the human eye -

   We can not see Country
   but we hope to understand its worth.
   For what is essential is formed in formlessness.

We are seen more than we can see.
And loved more than we are able to believe.

---<--@

Gathering Sense

My fellow Filipinos,

how shall we know each other?

We shall know each other

by the love that we profess for this Republic - and -

to the people for whom we, together, stand

to serve and defend forever.

Fly Old Defiant,

arise like a swift and sure sunrise,

arise in hearts of all thy servants,

making us ready, making us one.