Love/Life is a Battlefield

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"My safety and comfort in exchange for my silence in the face of widespread untruthfulness, ignorance, and suffering." If being numb to such things is the goal of spirituality or religiosity, I'd rather remain a materialist or irreligious person. "Happiness is the goal," and I find no peace nor happiness in being passive. I can't simply close my eyes and ears and choose to not see and to not hear the suffering of others? Would I be happier if I were partly deaf and blind? Is there any repose and hope left for someone whose heart is callous and cannot feel? Why should I sacrifice the most precious and lasting love and compassion in exchange for the beguiling goodies of this illusory world, on this planet of death? Would I be complete and peaceful? "What profits a man if he gains the whole world but loses his own soul?" Would he not be more empty inside? ... God, the goal of religion, is love; and religiosity, spirituality, or godliness is a declaration of war against "Maya", the very cunning and deceptive, cruel goddess of mammon, or materialism. In her embrace are the shackles of chaos, misery, and death. Love (happiness) is but a word without sacrifice, and war is an extremely active state of conflict. Both are not about temporary solace, security, or peace.

 

To become freed from material anxiety and to become one with the Lord (mukti-bhukti) are the two witches of allurement. I desired nor prayed for either one of them.

 

"A pure devotee never cares for liberation. Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu prayed to Kṛṣṇa, "My dear son of Nanda, I do not want any material happiness in the shape of many followers, nor immense opulence in wealth, nor any beautiful wife, nor do I want cessation from material existence. I may take birth many times, one after another, but what I pray from You is that my devotion unto You may always remain unflinching."

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Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice is 

a question of life and death,

of right and wrong, 

of light and darkness,

of good and evil. 

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“True soldier fights not because
he hates what's in front of him, but
because he loves what's behind him.” 

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Beware of him
who calls you a demon,
because he is either a saint

or a greater demon than you.

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"Age does not guarantee
wisdom." -John Kennedy

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My live-solo-acoustic version of 

Bret Gyrich's "Sons of America"

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God is merciful.
He'll hear my plea.
My prayer will
protect you.

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