• Always come to terms with life advisedly.

♣ Never come to terms with the world unless you must.

–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com

• Kids anticipate boundless care from parents.

♣ A child is the treasure that keeps on taking.

–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com

•Intelligence doesn’t presuppose knowledge or character. Without knowledge high IQ is the measure of virtual ignorance and without  character often proves dangerous.

•There’s a difference between having a brain and having a mind. The one is potential energy, unsolicited, unearned, the other kenetic, active in daily work, discipline, cultivation. Trump may well possess a brain but it’s clear he’s never developed a mind.

♣ If it’s true what he boasts and Donald Trump’s IQ is 156, then Trump claims the highest IQ of any American president, notwithstanding however, that his is the most under-served of all since an earnest, caring, responsible person of even average intelligence seeks to learn at least something of politics, history and the human condition in hopes of being prepared for the weightiest office in the land.

–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com

Objective truth constitutes the one, urgent, steadfast and universal currency for human interaction. In its absence there can be no trust or arbitration, no reason, peace, harmony or stability, no honor, morals, justice, candor, argument or legitimacy, friendship, marriage, balance, safety, law or reparation, respect, character, morals, mastery, grace or equanimity–just lies, doubt, suspicion, alienation and chaos, the gnarled roots of fear, strife, hatred and slaughter.

Lies and slander skew the system exponentially.

Without truth man is morally bankrupt, doomed to disarray, undone, incurable, maddened by distrust, borne lastly and inexorably backward to the labyrinthine vaults of iniquitous Babel.

♣ Those who muddle truth soon inhabit that hell they took for heaven, short the wherewithal to lobby reform, shorn the means with which to barter relief.

–♦©M. D. Phillips-t-awincingglare.com

Chaos makes precarious ground for argument.

♣ You can’t argue with ignorance. Ignorance bides in chaos, In chaos ground for argument is conflated, logic skewed, the fabric of truth unwoven, its threads incurably frayed.

–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com

War is a failure to work for peace.

♣ Peace challenges. War kills.

–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com

A brain is given, a mind developed, a soul cultivated. The first is sane, the next profound, the last purely sublime.

♣ The rational brain, appointed to man for better or worse, growth or stagnation, always craves proximity to a developed mind and soul. Alone, the rational brain succumbs to doldrums, tedium, restlessness.

Mind and soul constitute the rational brain’s only inner support, its only compatible partners. Combined, the three can grow a rich and burgeoning inner life. Without the flourishing inner life drawn from mind and soul, however, the rational brain, no matter how advanced, enjoys but shreds of the true meaning, wholesome pursuit, clear direction, gripping intensity and high aspiration otherwise gained by the synergy.

In the absence of a thriving inner life born of mind and soul and entrance into the brain of nettling doldrums, tedium, restlessness, what’s right seems counterintuitive, boring, hard, restrictive, what’s wrong instinctive, thrilling, easy, liberating. Insight blinds. Distinction blurs. Confusion rages. Truth languishes. Joy stifles.

The rational brain bereft of mind and soul begins to hunger but is thwarted. Short of nourishment the rational brain forms a nagging void and feeling pangs of hunger ventures outside to the semblance of nutrition that constitutes vice. The rational brain seeks to fill the nagging void with vice. Vice proves incompatible, insufficient, untenable. Soon the nagging inner void deepens. To compensate, the rational brain consumes more vice without avail. The void sinks to a veritable abyss. The rational brain begins to starve. Blinding insight, blurring distinction, languishing truth, stifling joy, raging confusion all compress, implode on themselves and finally reduce to nothingness. What vestiges of mind and soul remain start to die and the rational brain gradually follows.

–♦©M. D.Phillips–awincingglare.com

Hope springs eternal but so does pouring rain.

♣ Every cloud has a silver lining, waiting to drop a storm.

–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com

Maintain hope but watch your step.

♣ Knowing it’s darkest before the dawn won’t stop you from stubbing a toe.

–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com

Sometimes the road to true enlightenment and the one to utter decadence can end up the same.

♣ For some the path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. For others it brings the park bench of ruin.

–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com