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TOLERANCE FOR THE SAKE OF COMPLEMENTARITY

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Human society needs a healthy mix of capitalism and socialism. Too much of either one has always proven to be bad.

Human society needs a healthy mix of faith and doubt. Too much of either one has always proven to be bad.

The world needs a healthy balance between “I” and “we”. Too much of either one has always proven to be bad.

We divide ourselves into “left” and “right”; and then we forget that left and right are the two legs on which that which is Human walks, balanced. They are not adversaries of one another; they are complementary to one another. Each must tolerate the other, for the sake of all.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

ALERTNESS

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Be present
In the moment
Or when your moment comes
You will be absent
In it.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

DEJA VU

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Is the future
a story we read in the past
and forget in the present?

Or is tomorrow
a story we wrote yesterday?
and life is reading it back to us today.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
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POWER

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All power belongs to God, and only to God. If power is given to you, then you are just temporarily a vessel through which power in part will seek to fulfil the Will of God.

If you try to wield power and to bend it to your own will, and use it solely in service of your own ego and volition, then it will turn against you and destroy you, even if this destruction only becomes obvious to you after you have left this earth and it is too late to stop or reverse your self-destruction via power.

This is the worst kind of destruction, the one that becomes visible only after you have left the earth. You will have to come again as a baby and live a new life, to attempt to painfully undo the errors of the former.

Power is a very strange thing. It is not what you think it is. It is not what you see or think that you are seeing. What you see as power, no matter how obvious or subtle it may be, is just a temporary vessel through which power seeks to fulfil the Will of God. For all power belongs to God.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

WEAKNESS

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The greatest strength
is the strength to look beyond
your own strength
and find in your weakness
strength in other people’s strength.

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JOYFUL ACTIVITY

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There’s a reason why it’s called Eternal Life,
Not perpetual snooze or eternal sleep.
Stop saying “rest in peace”
to those who have left the earth for the afterlife.
Wish them instead a safe journey
And Joyful luminous activity
For all eternity.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
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LIFE GOES ON

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The departed are not dead
They do not rest in peace
If they rest, they have no peace
If they have peace, they‘re not at rest.

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EACH IS OTHER

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Life is made up of many realities
living next to each other

They are not pretending
to get along with each other

They think they are getting along
with each other

And so they do. Coexist.
Mainly unaware of each other.

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DESTINATION UNCERTAIN

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The earth is not just carrying us
We are carrying the earth too
We attract each other with gravitational forces
Where are we carrying the earth to?

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STATE OF BEING YOU

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It’s hard to get excited when you see through everyone and everything.
And also when you’ve seen through your own self to the core, it’s hard to whip up enthusiasm for things you know well are not you or yours. It’s like a kind of boredom.
Only your small simple little things satisfy your life now and you tend to just want to stick to them, whether the world says they’re right or wrong. They’re yours.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
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