Everybody Lies

I've thought about what Dr. House is really saying here... I think it's a practical truth. 



We live in a real world. In this world, what is real is always fleeting.

Lies are like shadows. They deny or expose our thinking to truths either fully concealed or only partially concealed to our naked understanding.

For good or ill, what determines how our minds are exposed to the truth is not light but darkness. And our hearts (our love) react accordingly.

(Remember, the First Night is the Sky of Illumination.)

Those with bright intentions and those with dark intentions both use shadow to awaken the seeker in the self... Think about it.

And so Dr. Gregory House says,

"Everybody lies."

I do not think he's saying one should make it a practice to deceive, mind you. But to brace ourselves because in this world, "everybody lies".

THEREFORE, to thy own self be true.

"No one changes."

So seeker be true.

Seek your permanent self.

And just be.

Be the change to master change.

Or you may never live.

Be in love. Be alive.

Be yourself.

Be brave.

Live.

Do no harm.

---<--@

I simply love the House MD series! Kudos to the brilliance of the entire cast and crew.

Truth hurts. After all, we begin life in this world not fully accustomed to it: Afterwards realizing... then growing bright. (By the grace of God, in my view.)

Zealous for Souls

God is.
And that is all.

God is - because life is.
Life is because - we are.

We are because - the soul is.
And the soul is because - God is.

And God is - unto all things living
for God is - the God of all the living!

- selah -

The soul is
possessed not -
of its own life.

It receives its being from
- the LORD Who is -
and life is its being.

From it,
arise every nature
of everything living.

And thus
by nature
is alive.

For all that is
in spirit - is alive.

It flows forth
from the soul
and is alive.

- selah -

What heart could truly love
without having beheld the beautiful?

The soul contains the living Breath
that breathes into everything that is - alive.

Separate it not from its Maker.

'Tis a manifestation of the Truth of its God.

Esteem it not by its smallness.

- selah -

What mind could truly think
without having thought about truth?

The soul is - the principle of life.
For God is - and gives shape to its being.

Mistake it not for its Master.

'Tis a reflection of the Life of its Creator.

Regard it not by its fragments.

- selah -

Why then, Starshine,
dost the eye of the heart
in regarding a soul without God
claimeth it has seen the soul
when it thinks of naught
but utter disrespect for life?

Who could trust the darkness
when it speaks of itself
about the light?

Thy own soul, precious Starshine,
may only be truly perceived
by other living souls.

That thou art by Beauty beheld!

Therefore -

Do not despair with those
who in death and in desolation
seeketh to perceive life in the living.

Neither weep with those
whose pre-occuppation with evil
have moved them to seek what is good.

There are some who seek,
who find they never find.

Yet, precious Starshine,
there are some who seek,
who are eventually found.

- selah -

Dear Starshine, the eye
that seeth far - into the soul
knoweth from where it proceeds.

It has come to know the majesty
of a myriad unfolding universes.

For it has come to behold the glory
of such dreams - in a grain of sand...

It beheld them in their moments,
as worlds upon worlds arising,
as truths that are everlasting,
and so - knoweth Spirit.

By the Love
through which one shines
far into the darkness - and into
the reality of other souls.

And in the Truth
through which one reaches
deep into the darkness - and into
the reality of other hearts.

- selah -

The soul is -
the principle of life.

And life is -
what gives shape to its being.

Being is
- what makes everything exist -
as they are.

And the soul is
- the being of its life -
being in every living being.

All have their being - because life is.

Thus,
all in Creation is -
because life is.

- selah -

In lower creation, being is
a soul - that is - in each - a soul.

'Tis in the trees and the plants of the earth.
'Tis in the animals of the land, sea, and air.

And gives them life.

- selah -

In higher creation, being is
a soul - that is - in each - a living soul.

'Tis in each Angel up in the heavens above.
'Tis in each Man here upon the earth below.

And gives us life.
And the knowledge of life.

- selah -

The soul of every Man
is heart and mind.

'Tis heart and mind
united as one!

For the heart proceeds.
And the mind knoweth.

 - selah -

And so the heart is in darkness.
And love awakens in darkness.

For the heart in every Man
knoweth not - 'tis a heart.

- selah -

And so the mind is in darkness.
And thought arises in darkness.

For the mind in every Man
knoweth not - 'tis a mind.

- selah -

The Beloved
beholds the heart
and the heart knows -
'tis a heart!

And the heart
in beholding the Beloved
beholds the Beautiful.

- selah -

The heart
in knowing itself
knoweth - thought.

And love
in knowing thought
knoweth - mind.

- selah -

The Beautiful
beholds the mind
and the mind knows -
'tis a mind!

And the mind
in beholding the Beautiful
beholds the Beloved.

- selah -

The mind
in knowing itself
knoweth - truth.

And love
in knowing truth
knoweth - self.

- selah -

The soul of every Man
is heart and mind.

'Tis heart and mind
united as one!

And spirit is - its brightness!

In the heart,
where the seat of the soul is,
'tis a brightness of love.

In the mind,
where the seat of the intellect is,
'tis a brightness of truth.

- selah -

For the heart proceeds.

As love must
from the seat of the soul
proceed -

And the mind knoweth.

As truth must
through the love in the heart
succeed -

And spirit is - its brightness!

- selah -

For the heart proceeds.

As the stars must
from the power of their being
shine forth -

And the mind knoweth.

As the stars must
through the reality of their truth
shine forth -

And spirit is - its brightness!

- selah -

Spirit is brightness.

For love
is the life of the heart
and beholds - the Beloved.

Love is -
not because of the heart:

For love
is the way of
every human heart.

- selah -

Truth is fullness.

For - the truth
is the light of the mind
and beholds -  the Beautiful.

Truth is -
not because of the mind.

For truth
is the way of
every human mind.

- selah -

We live
through the Life of a Being
that is eternal.

We love
through the Love of a Truth
that is absolute.

We think
through the Light of a Reality
that is infinite.

We are found
not because we seek to find what we seek
but because we have come seek of these things
in and of themselves - in God alone.

- selah -

Thus,
our beloved Starshine,

In spirit and for truth dost
each thy light ever proceed
from the seat of thy every soul
to alloweth thine own time to flow
through the abundance of every heart
into those many rivers and into their seas
that join into the one Ocean of the Infinite.

And in this -
Infinite Ocean
all in Humankind is  -
a species of living soul:
That make us all common
in each our being - just human.

For the human spirit is
everywhere the Beloved is
because everywhere the Beloved is,
there is Beauty - and verily,

Beauty is everywhere.
---<--@

The Haze

Hazing is all about the "haze".

There has been a lot of public controversy about hazing. Most of it is well founded.

This matter mostly concerns our youth.

Because most of those who speak out against hazing are grieving parents who have lost a son or a daughter to it - respected fathers and beloved mothers in the Nation.

For many are the names heard who perished from the ineptitude and utter recklessness of those who haze who understanding nothing about the "haze". And it is always one life too many, and it is always one of our hopeful and aspiring, spirited, young starshines.

Those who themselves did not conquer the haze now use their blindness to mindlessly destroy young lives and young dreams. They do not haze, they simply abuse. Some of them so wantonly and so recklessly that perhaps they have come to feel they have a special license to secretly propagate their violence in the minds and hearts of our children in the Nation.

They have no such right.

Those traditions who transmit violence for violence's own sake are evil and empty and also blind. It mires the spirit of our youth permanently in a state of inward confusion and afflicts them in their formative ages until they themselves resolve to regard violence as a point of clarity and resolution. Until they themselves become inwardly drawn to violence as a mode and an answer to interior conflicts.

It is a betrayal.



Those who did not physically perish - have themselves perished - from the thought - that lived within the formative longing in them - for those self-same spirit ideals of civic trust and human solidarity integral to the formation of a crucial sense of a uniquely personal sense of identity - distinctive - yet identifiable with and within a greater, common belonging - a civic identity, a citizenship.

- selah -

The issue at hand as regards the controversy on hazing, I am convinced, is not really about hazing but about those who have corrupted its spirit and living tradition. It is really about criminal abuse, spiritual corruption, and the betrayal of the common trust of our generations.

Hazing is an act of passing on. One does not endure it or merely survive it, one must conquer it and from it prevail in passing from a past life into another one.

It afflicts in an inductee, a deliberate sense of confusion and this state is - the haze.

How this is done may be physical or mental or both. And though it shall and - it must - always involve a level of pain, it must never be done to excess. Because it is intended to be a spiritual rigor. Those who pass it on must be careful in passing it on - because the act itself always contains something...

One emerges from the haze, into the fullness of the clarity of its intended evolution. It is always part of a program of initiation and indoctrination. And it is always an act of spiritual connection, sacred as well as intimate. It proves trust and blesses it. A paradox to those who do not experience it from within.

The haze is what it produces. Because a lie is a lie is a lie - but - it is not self-deception unless one believes that a lie is not a lie - inasmuch as to knowingly tell a lie and to knowingly impugn the Truth is not the same action.

It has something to do with character building - and - it has everything to do with leadership formation in a peerage Institution.

Because self-deception is the enemy of every Code that institutionalize leadership professionally in the formal and in the national, civil as well as military. And it shows no prejudice to rank just as much as the Code shows no yield to the equality of its application.

Because ultimately, it is only a question of one or the other.

The Code answers to a question, and it is a question of honor, and it is a question too - that no man nor woman may know the answer to - unless he or she becomes - and is made answerable to - the question itself.

And is not a question of violence - or how violent.

The haze is what it produces: It makes for a vigilant spirit and an upright heart. It produces focus and clarity of intention. And it is always an integral part of a greater spirit of a living tradition of leadership formation and academic excellence. It prepares leaders to serve among leaders.

But if it only passes on an empty spirit and a dead tradition - in this controversy on hazing, we may also see - the blind can never lead the blind.
---<--@

Life itself will haze us, you know. Individuals and Nations too. And in the world outside, if one loses sight of one's own true self - or what is true - it will be permanent, and it will be for real.

Fear only what is certain.

Then KCCO.

Kindred Spirits

Don't just say something, dear Starshine,
say something because you have something to say.



An idea is multiplied by the sum of those who receive it,
being in truth divided by the whole of those who have come to possess it.

And so something of our spirit becomes - at once and for all time,
both yours and mine - kindred in light.
---<--@

Salutation #171

The First Day,
God spoke Light
and everything in everything
and all that is in all
became for Him.



(The First Day)

Truth
imparts form to the formless.
Knowledge is made meaningful because of it.
Formlessness creates form.
Form allows knowledge to be studied.
The understanding of knowledge is the labor of science.
But the labor of Man is to know the Truth.

Man through his labor learns knowledge.
For knowledge is the reward of study.
He receives it only through his learning
and is taught to his mind only because
it has preceded his being.

For all knowledge have existed before Man
and is possessed by him according to his labors,
it is given him only for a time - and passes away forever.

It is vanity to love knowledge for knowledge alone is vanity.

The learned profit not without a love of learning
and keep it not if they were wise.
For the profit of learning
lies not in an understanding of knowledge
but in an understanding of the truth.

He is one who sees the field
and knows the treasure that is hidden within
and so he sells everything he owned to buy the field
that he may cherish it forever.

Knowledge is received but truth is sought -
one is the reward of virtue, and the other a grace of faith.
All knowledge passes away, it is like time - a thing borrowed,
but the truth once possessed is possessed forever.

Happy those who possess the truth!
They are those whose spirits are poor
who in their poverty shall inherit the earth.

Knowledge is burdensome yet
when placed in the service of the truth
become easy and light.

Knowledge profits not the soul yet
when understood in the truth
is the gain of wisdom.

Science profits not the man yet
when understood in the truth
is the gain of all men.

For all knowledge
that is kept like a treasure rots -
its everlasting value lies in the giving away,
ever like tears shed for love of others
ever like a light shone in the darkness of the night -
but the wisdom of this freedom
shall ever return to thee, darling Starshine,
for ever by the grace of God,
truth shall set men free.
---<--@

Endless Blue Sky Sunshine

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

Live your truth responsibly!

Speak it like you mean it.

Share it like you love it.

Keep it like you really care,

gripping it not with your hands,
but embracing it with your heart.

Nurture it as if it were yours
knowing always to be thankful
to the one God of Whose Reality
is the one Truelight you reflect;
the one LORD by Whose desire
you are called to become you.

So strive with courage and heart
despairing not, dear Starshine,
but being always of good cheer -
you are beautiful without effort!

So be like all hope is become;
walk like you're never forgot;
dance like you are truly alive;
sing like the world cares not;
smile like worries have an end;
laugh like each moment is free;
breathe like your prayer begun;
shine like you belonged forever!

By sweet surrender to the Light
be the gold of sunbeams sharp
against the darkness of the Night
flying upon the wings of eagles
into the blue of an endless sky.
---<--@

Laban ng Buhay

Laban ng buhay,

hamon ng panahon!

Gumising O puso,

tumugon sa hamon!

Lumaban sa agos,

pag-asa'y itaguyod.

Laban ng buhay,

iwaksi ang takot!

Manalig sa sarili.

Maging tapat sa Diyos.

Kapwa mo'y mahalin.

Katotohana'y intindihin.

Puso ng tao'y

parang tala sa langit

na sa gabi'y nangarap

at minsa'y nagising

sa dilim at liwanag

at sa umagang parating.

Ito ang kalayaang

hindi kayang alisin

kalayaang sa puso'y

kung bibigyang pansin

kapangyarihang tunay

na pumiling taglay.

O pusong natutulog

gumising sa dilim!

Dusa'y intindihin.

Imobt ay alisin.

Ningning mo'y patikasin,

liwanag mo'y palawakin.

Laban ng buhay

sa kadilima'y ipahiwatig

sa mga pusong nakikinig

lumaban sa agos

tumugon sa hamon

at lumaya ng lubos.

Laban ng buhay,

hamon ng panahon!

Puso ko ika'y tumugon.

Mamuhay ng may tapang,

problema'y harapin,

langit mo'y abutin.

Kung pangarap mo'y

malayang susundin,

kung liwanag mo'y

siyang pagtitibayin,

sa laban ng buhay

kamit mo'y tagumpay.

Laban ng buhay!

Puso ko sa dilim

sa Diyos ang tingin

pangako Niya'y dingin

manalig, maniwala

mangarap ng malaya.

---<--@

Salutation #46

(The Wisdom of Learning)

We are - because -

we have come to know who we are not.

This is why we must ask our questions

sincerely seeking for answers.

For when we learn any truth,

we do not learn to use it - unless -

we are led by an understanding

of our need of it.

We become wise

not by the conception of what we know how to do

- but by the sheer weight -

of what we know we ought not to do.

Wisdom never applies where danger is absent.

We become wise - only -

when we become broken enough

by the wrong things to ask ourselves why.

Fear of the LORD must lead to a reverence of Him.

For the safety of God is the beginning of wisdom.

Or we could learn to listen, to ponder and to observe -

To be able to surrender a measure

of our own freedom to the ennobling of others,

submit our independence to their discipline

and strive to remain in the humility of our youth

- the agelessness of little children -

to be able to absorb their constant teaching.

Fear of the instruments of the LORD

must also lead to a reverence of Him.

For wisdom that is learned

and wisdom that is transmitted

are one and the same thing.

In the former,

we expose ourselves to the presence of things

we must learn to never trust.

And in the latter,

we expose ourselves to the presence of things

we must learn to trust.

Both of these - being those things -

that we should never expose ourselves to in the first place.

Such is the condition of our exile!

For if our bliss is to never know danger,

to never know wisdom, makes it perfect.

The safety of God is the beginning of all learning.

And a knowledge of the truth is its own lineage.

For all true things ascend to God - just as surely -

as all our learning must eventually disappear

from the confines of both mind and heart

to return again to the infinite depths of the Divine.

All knowledge is a giving that begins with God

and a receiving that must end forever in God.

All our learning is nothing we can possess.

All our knowledge may only be kept in trust.

We possess it for a while as a means to find our way

and then we must return it - again and again -

to the LORD Who possesses all means.

Indeed,

learning that does not lead to wisdom

is like water that never flows - without purpose -

and like a river with neither beginning nor end - meaningless.

All learning that is kept like a treasure rots.

For every knowledge that must remain - as truth in the heart -

must be something we forever give away.

---<--@

20110805

Man is a creature of possibilities. Therefore, know your limits. But do not allow yourself to be defined by them.

Salutation #45

(The Gift)

You know in your heart, dear Starshine,

you belong to something greater than thee!

Now there is a dream that lives in thy every spirit

and this truth in thee gives thy soul its powers of flight.

It is present in all thy reaching out to both heaven and earth

for thy dream is an irreplaceable fragment of a greater dreaming.

You are a person called to the labor of the earth;

a citizen purposed by God for the peace of thy nations;

a promise born into the great dreaming of the exile children of Mankind;

thy soul summoned by Our Creator from the nothingness of the void;

a unique fragment of what once was now reside as a mystery in thy own self.

In thy every heart,

you long for thy own place in time,

in so many ways of expressions unique to each of thee

yet each equally true according to thy reaching out

for that same timeless seeking for answers

to the one question that lay at the very beginning of thy being

beckoning thee unto a memory exceedingly sublime

- neither past, present, nor future -

when the Heavens above thee were one,

and the Earth was at one with its own native Sky.

When the portals of Eternity were open and attentive to thy humanity

and the Throne of the LORD burst forth with a golden radiance

embracing all things everywhere with the splendor of the glory of God.

When the Presence of the LORD was upon the face of the Earth,

ministering freely to all thy worlds, within and without,

calling forth all creatures to God, and fruition, and constant felicity;

blessing all the realms of creation with every abundance and in all truth.

When the Light of the LORD filled thy Earth and Sky,

uniting all living beings, seen and unseen,

into the glorious Peace of the one great belonging of God.

Your happiness is a freedom to search for the answers

to that one longing that lives in thy every heart -

a longing that the LORD has for thee lovingly invested

born of a promise thy Creator has laid at the seat of thy own soul;

a freedom to give shape thy every life's purpose

and a hope to whet thy faith for the things of heaven

to stir thy heart unto a remembrance of God

and in God a remembrance of all things in each thy behalf.

For thy common salutation is Peace

so mean it well for this Peace is of a truth;

a good that is beyond all understanding.

---<--@

Mabuhay po tayong lahat! Peace. Salaam. Shalom. God bless all His nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind.

Everybody have a great weekend!

Heartsong

I AM the unsung song
that lives within a dream;
the seed within a soul.

Every infinite universe
embraced from within
the heart of God.

I am the road
not the destiny,
I am the journey
not the destination,
I am the dreaming
not the dream,
I am the becoming,
not the being,
I am the singing,
not the song,
I am the climb
not the peak,
I am what soars!

I begin with a praise -
I breathe the air,
and cry out loud:
Alleluia to the LORD!

I end with a praise -
I lift my head,
and bow my heart:
Alleluia to the LORD!

I am heartsong.

Virtue of Truthfulness

Now please, here is our challenge for this month - 201108

Salutation #24

Cor ad Cor Loquitur

Have you observed now, dear starshine, how some of our written human languages are read from left to right, some from right to left, and there are yet even some that are read from top to bottom?

Of all of these, Beloved of God, the most useful ones to you are those that can be understood by all human hearts - those that are written in the language of the truth.

Heart speaketh unto heart, starshine,

so let the language of the truth

- in all its forms -

being the tongue of Peace and of all of heaven,

let this be thy official tongue -

---<--@

(A Salutation to the Youth of all Nations - On Peace, Human Citizenship and the Longest Night)

PEACE be upon you,

Our beloved Starshine -

kindred youth from all nations.

You of the generations of life -

all you children of the light,

kindred spirits, one to another,

called to that Promise of old

made by He Who Is to our Father Abraham -

all you numberless stars of the skies above thy souls

allied to the peace of all the children of good will

drawn from the sacred remembrances

of all the nations of the earth

through whom the LORD God has deigned

to bless all our national communities

in this present time, under this season of Peace,

citizens of all creation,

I salute you.

Let the awakening of these present times

be a certain comfort to you, Beloved of God,

and be glad for the coming of the new Day, alleluia.

For this long night

is a necessary passage

- as you shall see -

gather thy selves therefore, in this twilight,

and turn thy hearts away

from the waning of the dark

that you may come to discern

what lies ahead.

Before us, beloved starshine, are new horizons -

and you are the strength

with which it becomes possible

to reach out toward all these brighter tomorrows.

Speak thy truth, therefore -

ask of thy LORD and God, "what do I love, O God of All?",

that you may understand

with an understanding that leads to Peace

and the Peace which shall be your common right

- one with another -

established in thy faith in God and thy humanity.

Before us, beloved starshine, are new horizons -

speak thy truth, therefore -

ask of thy self, "what do I love, O heart?",

that you may lay claim

to that Morning which is thy own

- together this time -

a future that is fully human, Beloved of God;

a work of heaven and the earth.

Love the LORD, therefore -

our most precious starshine,

not with a love of division in thy heart

for your prayers shall never ascend to the unity of God

if War is in thy heart.

The strength of all our human communities

spread across the sheltering wings of all our nations

is the product of your own personal commitment

to the labor of completing your humanity.

Everything is given to establish you upon the grounds of this truth -

that you are a human being, a creature before your one Creator,

you are a work of Peace - a living work -

established in the life of thy nations

and entrusted to the wisdom

of all thy lineages of honorable religion,

above all to the three great Abrahamic faiths

(Judaism, Christianity, and Islam)

to whom it is especially entrusted by God,

the labor of the Peace of these present times,

and so it is through thy own humanity, starshine,

that you multiply

- through thy constant faith and humility -

the excellence of your citizenship, one with another,

before the LORD and the assembly of the nations in Eternity.

Remember this always

and love the other as yourself.

Be patient, starshine,

and do this without being bitter -

believe constantly in all good things

without despairing of self or of others like thy self

for the darkness is but the darkness

that does not lead to the light.

Give praise and thanks to the LORD,

for God alone provides

and His grace alone is sufficient.

Say to thy heart,

"everything is changing around me, alleluia."

And after the long night,

Beloved of God,

the Day is sure to come -

for thee.

---<--@

Mabuhay ang puso ng ating mga kabataan! God bless the youth of all our nations.

Virtue of Truthfulness

The Longest Night

20110405

Diyos ay Katotohanan, Bayan Ko

Ang Diyos ay Katotohanan! Lahat ay pawang panaginip lamang kung ang mga ito ay hindi malayang bumubukal sa Katotohanang ang Diyos ay Diyos at wala nang iba pang Katotohanan maliban sa Kanya.

Kung ang isip at malay ng tao ay pawang gising at malaya, ito ay dahil ang Diyos ay gising sa ating katotohanan sa Kanya.

Kung tayo ay malaya ito ay dahil tayo ay gising din sa katotohanang ang Diyos ay Diyos at wala Siyang katulad sa langit o sa lupa, maging sa lahat ng mga bagay na nakikita o hindi nakikita.

Iisa lamang po ang Diyos nang lahat nang mga ito; ang Poong May gawa nang lahat ng bagay sa lupa man o sa langit.

Sadyang napakabuti po ng Diyos sa tao. Alalahanin natin ang Diyos, Bayan ko. Siya po ang ating mahal na Diyos at Siya lamang.

Ang Diyos po ay ang Katotohanang nagbibigay tanglaw sa tao at laya sa mga bansang iniluklok Niya sa lupa para na rin sa buong sangkatauhan; mga bansang patuloy pa ring naglalakbay patungo sa katuparan ng Kanyang ipinangakong kaligtasan sa atin.

Ang Diyos ay malapit sa tao. Ang Diyos ay Espiritu at ang lahat nang ating mga saloobin ay Kanyang nalalaman. Ang ating mga isip-isipin at mga inspirasyon ay tanglaw ng katotohanang ang Diyos ay Espiritu. Kung ang Diyos po ang lalayo sa atin, tayo pong lahat ay maglalaho sa dilim. Kung magulo ang lagay ng mundo sa ngayon ito ay dahil sa tao na malimit ay nagpupumilit na lumayo sa Kanya.

Nakasisilaw po kasing tumingin sa araw. Pero tayo po ay nabubuhay dahil ang araw ay palaging nakasubahbay sa ating mundo. Hindi naman kailangang itapat ang ating mga mata sa araw para po natin malamang may Liwanag. Dahil po ang Liwanag ay nakikita at nararamdaman po natin sa paligid natin at higit sa lahat sa pusong marunong magtiwala sa Diyos na Siyang tunay na araw na nakasubaybay sa puso ng lahat ng tao.

Sa mga kapwa ko Kristyano, ang Liwanag ng Diyos ay si Kristo Hesus.

Iisa lamang po ang Diyos. Alamin mo ang Diyos, Pilipino. Hanapin mo Siya ng buong puso, buong lakas at nang may kababaang loob.

Hanapin mo Siya sa iyong puso at sa iyong kapwa Pilipino.

Hanapin mo Siya sa mga taong nauuhaw at nagugutom, hanapin mo Siya sa mga taong hubad sa karapatang pangtao, sa mga api at inaalipusta ng lipunang bulag sa kakulangan ng Liwanag at tamad sa mga gawaing nagbibigay buhay sa tao at dangal sa mga bansa ng tao.

Sa bansa nating Pilipinas, Pilipino, magi kang tunay na matapat, maka-Diyos, at makatao. Ikaw ay matutong magsilbi ng mahusay at maligaya.

Walang taong nabubuhay para sa sarili lamang. Walang taong naliligtas dahil sa sarili lamang.

Gawin mo ito ng buong tapang at nang may pananalig sa Katotohanang ang Diyos ay Diyos - wala Siyang katulad at wala nang iba pang diyos maliban sa Kanya.

Hindi relihiyon ang problema, hindi dahil sa tayo ay marami at may iba't ibang kulay, boses, pangarap at pag-iisip ay wala na tayong saysay bilang bansang Pilipinas.

Ang bansa po natin ay itinatag po hindi ng tao kundi ng Diyos para sa tao. Lahat po ng mga ito ay ginawa ng Diyos para sa atin na rin.

Ang ating kasaysayan ay binigyang hugis ng Diyos - lahat ng mga sakit, lumbay, paghihirap, at mga tagumpay nito - upang tayo ay Kanyang akaying unti-unti patungo sa panahong atin na nagayong inaangkin at dapat pangalagaan.

Dahil ito po ay panahon na natin para magising sa mga katotohanang ito.

Ang puso ng Pilipinas ay iisa lamang, Pilipino.

Kung ito ay ating tatanggapin, pangangalagaan at pauunlarin, sa Ngalan na rin ng PANGINOON na Diyos nating lahat, mga kapatid ko, ay walang dahilan para hindi tayo umunlad at umani ng tagumpay.

Masdan mong maiigi ang puso ng ating mga bayani, Pilipino.

Masdan mong maigi ang kagandan, kagitingan, galing at pagmamahal sa kapwa na nabubuhay sa mga puso nila Jose Rizal, Andres Bonifacio, GomBurZa, Gregorio del Pilar, Apolinario Mabini, Emilio Jacinto, Ramon Magsaysay, Ninoy Aquino, atbp. masdan mo ito, mga kapwa ko kapatid sa pangako sapagka't ang pusong ito ay puso mo rin.

Ipinagdasadal ko, kapatid kong Pilipino, na iyong pagninilaynilayan ang tawag ng ating panahon.

Hanapin mo ang Diyos at nawa'y makita at malaman mong muli kung sino ka talaga, Pilipino. Hindi po ito madali. Pero wala na pong makagagawa nito para sa bayang Pilipinas kundi tayo lamang, Pilipino - ikaw at ako.

Ang bayan natin ay lupain ng pangako. Marahil po ay hindi na rin natin makikita at masisilayan ang katuparan ng marami sa mga pangakong ito. Pero kung hindi natin sisimulan ito - naghahari ba talaga ang Diyos sa puso natin? Kilala ba natin talaga ang Pilipinas na ating bansang nagmamahal at naghihirap ngayon.

Mahal mo ba talaga ang Pilipinas - totoo ba siya sa iyo?

Maglalaho po nawa lahat ng balakid, O Diyos, para sa ating mga Pilipino.

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Mabuhay ang Pilipinas! Mabuhay ang Pilipino.

Mapalad ang Bayan na ang Diyos ay ang PANGINOON.

20110402

Salutation #1

(Salute to the Stars)

TO ALL MY FRIENDS,
who are my companions
near or far, alone or with others,
known or known to God alone
who are from always to always
one kindred grace, joined in truth.

I salute you with much love
being fond of my desire to serve you

through what gift I have to give
that we may fulfill each our parts
as common vanguards of autumnal Eden
entrusted with the peace of our nations
being bound to the one promise of old
to become as numberless as the stars
and sanctify the hopes of our humanity
by bidding them, turn away from War.

Let War's ambitions remain in itself

having no particular truth of it's own;

comprehending not itself from itself
knowing nothing apart from nothing;

perceiving creation as darkness entire

and not the great wonder of living light
that amidst the vast emptiness of space
fill the silence of the void with glad tidings
that bear aloft our hope for human life
and the pursuit of life's great promise.

We shall stand for something!
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O MANKIND, my nations,

saith the LORD, our God,
where is thy one heart?
The heart that yearns
to be one as I AM one.

O ye believers, listen:
Have thou loved the other?

Have thou seen through

Babel's confusion?

O ye peoples, gather about!

Return to Me, O my portion,
come and learn again My ways
for My ways lead thee to life
and My peace is thy only path.

Know ye the Truth

and I shall set thee free.

I am the LORD, thy living God:
Behold! I am but one God alone,
worship Me not with thy divisions!
Serve me not with wars' ambition
but turn away, O stars of Abraham,
and serve the life of My creation.
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Old Defiant vs. Old Compliant

Something's missing from my Philippines. Something vital.

Who knows her?

These days, everybody seems to be living for themselves alone. It seems no one remembers her.

By this, she is grieved and therefore, draws further and further away into isolation.

For the spirit of Country, my honorable compatriots, is a spirit of self-belonging. It is a self-cognizant, collective sense of self.

And the Republic is a guardian to a people orphaned by war.

Thus, if the people are divided in their hearts against each other, they are scattered.

And the people are scattered because of those distant and faded hearts; hearts that seem to no longer recognize the spirit of this Republic; hearts that have come to accept the rule of War.

Hence, the spirit of Country is diluted.

And when there is no substance left in our remembrance, when there is no peace left to abide in our belonging, when there is no truth left to empower our will of Country, we shall cease to exist as a nation.

But while our history still fills the hunger in our souls, while there is yet a common longing for better days burning in our hearts, while there is yet those who remember and believe, while there is yet even a few who are brave and true, by the grace of Almighty God, war will never have us.

Truly, my nation, this is not a very good time for the spirit of war. For this is exactly why the colors of our own Country is called Old Defiant.

We have a choice. Let it mean something:

Let us defy division, let us defy corruption, let us defy poverty, let us defy evil and prosper, my fellow Filipino compatriots - together this time.

Let us defend where we must, O my nation Philippines, and leave all else to the invulnerable, omnipotent defense of the LORD, our God, the one Sovereign of all nations.

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Mabuhay ang Pilipinas! God bless us all.

The Truth