Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for May 09, 2022

Life is short.

“…and wet themselves in discontent.” — not Henry Rollins.

It’s a great point, but I can’t help but feel like there’s a happy middle ground between a life of drone and misery, and utterly free depravity :D

“One person’s roar is another’s whine, just as one person’s music is another’s unendurable noise.”

“Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.”

“You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.”

“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.”

“Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.”

“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”

“You must never lower yourself to being a person you don’t like.” Henry Rollins

“Look, I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. So be as shrewd as snakes and harmless as doves. But beware! For you will be handed over to the courts and will be flogged with whips in the synagogues. You will stand trial before governors and kings because you are my followers. But this will be your opportunity to tell the rulers and other unbelievers about me. When you are arrested, don’t worry about how to respond or what to say. God will give you the right words at the right time. For it is not you who will be speaking—it will be the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

“A brother will betray his brother to death, a father will betray his own child, and children will rebel against their parents and cause them to be killed. And all nations will hate you because you are my followers. But everyone who endures to the end will be saved. When you are persecuted in one town, flee to the next. I tell you the truth, the Son of Man will return before you have reached all the towns of Israel.

“Students are not greater than their teacher, and slaves are not greater than their master. Students are to be like their teacher, and slaves are to be like their master. And since I, the master of the household, have been called the prince of demons, the members of my household will be called by even worse names!

“But don’t be afraid of those who threaten you. For the time is coming when everything that is covered will be revealed, and all that is secret will be made known to all. What I tell you now in the darkness, shout abroad when daybreak comes. What I whisper in your ear, shout from the housetops for all to hear!

Jesus of Nazareth, The Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 10: 16-31, The New Testament of the Holy Bible, New Living Translation

“Everyone who acknowledges me publicly here on earth, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. But everyone who denies me here on earth, I will also deny before my Father in heaven.

“Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace to the earth! I came not to bring peace, but a sword.‘I have come to set a man against his father,a daughter against her mother,and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.Your enemies will be right in your own household!’

“If you love your father or mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine. If you refuse to take up your cross and follow me, you are not worthy of being mine. If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it.”

Jesus of Nazareth, The Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 10: 32-39, The New Testament of the Holy Bible, New Living Translation

….. Wow.

That’s gonna screw it all up!

Ones reality meets truth and then meets themselves.