Mind of the People
which part of the Left has poetry?
The sage has no mind of his own. He takes as his own the mind of the people.
- Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
love God (harī) and he will reward you / love his creatures (harījan) and you will find God
- Kabir
You and I are educated and we know the world. We are in many ways what they call the leaders. And leaders must serve their people. No matter how tough our lives are, we are not victims. Those who are suffering are the robbed, poor, uneducated people. They have to decide whether and when to take up arms and go: they, not we. If and when they decide to fight, we have to obey and lead them. Whether they will fight or not is not up to us to decide.
- Eduardo Galeano
Which part of the Left has poetry and which part is deaf to beginnings?
Ordinariness is the Other, left out in every sense except that which is beginning.
Next to the ordinary is the void, where poems with no heart can pretend to sing.
Next to the void is the realm of higher things, higher than song, but not as high as pretense.
We come back to the pretend Left & prose.
Know the high but stick to the low.
- Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching