“Every day have the courage to do something that won’t compute.

Love your God by Loving the world … Work for others – more often than not for nothing … Give all that you have and be rich in your giving … Care for someone who “does not deserve it” … Denounce your governments by un-embracing their flags – doing so by daring to live courageously in the freedom for which they once supposedly stood … Give your humble appreciation for all that you do not understand … Ask the questions that have no answers — and then go looking for them … Invest in the millennium, by planting trees in whose shade you will never sit … Say that your main crop is the field that you have not yet planted; the one that you will today sow yet never live to harvest.

Listen as well to the things that perish and pass on. Put your ear close to them, and know the faint whisper of the songs that their lives will forever sing … Before acting, ask yourself: Will this bring Joy to those who love to Love? Then go with your Love to the fields and lie down in the shade …

Rest your head in the laps of all those in need, and swear allegiance to what is closest to your Heart. And as soon as the generals and the politicians start predicting the motions of your mind, let those thoughts drift into the ether. Leave them by the wayside as a sign to mark their false trail; the way you didn’t choose to go — the way no one else should either.

Do this, my friends, and finally — in every end & in every beginning — you will know your real resurrection.”

(~ inspired by Wendell Berry’s “Mad Farmer Liberation Front“)

Filed under: Practical Tips for Peace-full Living by Scaughdt