We bear the mask of a human being

We may look like humans,
but humans possess humanity.
Do we possess it,
the way we treat each other?

We carry within us the pride of an animal
that lives primarily for itself.

Ego and mind are our enemies;
they triumph over us every day.

Humanity is love and compassion,
not hatred and violence.

Anonymous writer

Breathing challenges

We breathe the air
of challenges, struggle,
want to measure ourselves
at almost any price,
balancing on the tightrope:
somewhere, nowhere,
striving for achievements,
strength and happiness.
To give us meaning
in this meaningless doing.
Climbing the ladder of power,
for money and prestige,
run over the heads of others
just to get further up,
up where the wind blows
of greed, lust and play
and call it our drive.

Everywhere this grimace flashes
as if programmed and ingrained,
beats us into this spell,
a hamster wheel of repetition
to forget our task:
who we really are
what we are
where we are going
why we are
where we come from
as prisoners of suggestion
under the influence
of proving, asserting ourselves.

It becomes quiet around us
when we leave this ground
and become what we really are.

Anonymous writer

Let us dream of waking up

Life is a performance,
a role play – interactive,
an immersion in changing situations,
a search for answers,
creating even more questions.

Life is a theatre play
of manifested thoughts,
connecting realities,
of light and shadow
on the stage of the world.

Life is like an axe
that splits the unity of life,
separating us all from each other,
letting us live as fragments,
puzzle pieces that belong together.

Life is like a dream,
unreal and barely tangible,
an interactive role-playing game,
clouds of illusions,
a labyrinth of time and space.

Let us dream of waking up.

Anonymous writer

Intelligence is not everything

Even intelligent people have numerous loopholes
where stupidity can still creep in.
Understanding, i.e. awareness, to understand the whole,
is thus ground down, takes a different direction,
deviates into unconscious, ignorant, divided states.

So those who only calculate with their heads
lose control of things and situations,
carry too much mental baggage within themselves,
contain a suppressed understanding of the heart,
too little to create balance.

Then the intellect becomes an ulcer,
intelligence a tool of the mind
in a negative way with poor results,
with humanity falling by the wayside.

Anonymous writer