The end is always hard.
Who can part
With the scene of his true living?
We spend our lives dying –
If ever we did anywhere anytime
For a moment live,
Who can with this moment part
From this scene depart
Without a tear?
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Even when you are down
Stay upon the path of honour
And when you are up too
Forget not the path of honour
It is the safeguarding of humanity
The preservation of human nature
Each time you play fair and justly
Regardless of whether it will bring you
Success or failure.
It is not only by joining the WWF
That you can save an endangered species –
Look inward; and make your contribution
By preserving the human in you.
Is there no honour in sports anymore?
Was there never any honour in politics?
To apparel one’s self in the appearance of victory:
Is this worth every means?
When we win like this, who has lost?
Is it not humankind?
The victory of money, power, praise
Upon the path of dishonorable ways
Will haunt humanity’s last days –
It has weakened us
And we have acquired the habit
Of abandoning humanity
Each time we want to achieve our goals.
But you: Deeply observe the dying species
And reflect upon the path of honour
That it still refuses to walk.
The path of honour: Walk this way.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
“Mother always told me: If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it doesn’t sound good to you, it won’t sound good to no-one else.”
– Leroy Robert ‘Satchel’ Paige
“When one has one’s hand full of truth, it is not always wise to open it.”
– French proverb
“Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.”
– African proverb
“Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“Nothing does Reason more right than the coolness of those that offer it. For truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.”
– William Penn
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
– Mark Twain
“Truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.”
– William Blake
“The worst you can do to truth is to cloth it in lies – you can never undo it anymore.”
– African proverb
“Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.”
-George Herbert
“I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.”
– Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth; but most times he will pick himself up and continue on.”
– Sir Winston Churchill
“My way of joking is to tell the truth.
That’s the funniest joke of all.”
– Muhammad Ali
“Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.”
– Pablo Picasso
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to suppress dissent; for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie. And thus, by extension: the Truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
– Joseph Goebbels (Propaganda Minister, Third Reich)
“Often times, to win us to our harm
The instruments of darkness tell us truths;
Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
In deepest consequence.”
– William Shakespear (Macbeth)
“When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey.”
– Arabian proverb
“Tell the truth but tell it slant
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth’s superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind.”
– Emily Dickinson
“There is no story that is not true. Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.”
– Chinua Achebe
“What is truth?”
– Pontius Pilate
“The greatest truth is the simplest one.”
– African proverb
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If a true friend is gold, are they poor that have no friends? Or rich by default, for peace of mind is also the lot of the lonely who is spared the irony of the laughter and companionship of false friends?
How often have we met with a friend and parted from a stranger a short while later? In these days of sad revolutions and mixed allegations, of spying and cyber double lives, of migration without integration, of hospitality without sincerity, of religious justice without religious love, of racial regrouping, gender re-evaluation, and social hardening, and of eternal unchanging vices; if you have one friend, just one friend, one true friend, then you have something more precious than silver and gold.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
Der Erdenkörper ist ein Betäubungsmittel
Wir sind blind und taub
Und zum Teil auch gelähmt
Das weitaus größere Teil von dem
Was es wahrzunehmen gibt
Bemerken wir nicht
Wir sehen es nicht, hören es nicht, fühlen es nicht
Wohl weil wir fleischlich eingemummt sind
Allein die Lichtsehnsucht kann uns befreien
Von aller Stofflichkeit.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
What binds me to my earthly father is
Love, duty, gratitude, respect and admiration.
What binds me to my Heavenly Father is
Eternal life,
Eternal gratitude,
Eternal purpose,
Eternal faithfulness here and everywhere,
Now and forever.
Not my earthly – but my Heavenly – Father.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
An event is a place in spacetime.
An event is an entity. And whenever it occurs, i.e. comes into being in spacetime, it will always be the same. Moving forward along the time axis does not mean that one has left the event “behind”, for the event can move and appear anywhere too. Time only qualifies it finely, while space conditionalises it more basically. That is, not it itself, the event, but its outer form.
The event itself stays the same – and each time it re-occurs you will at the end recognise it as being the same event that once happened thousands of years ago that has just repeated itself again.
Thus be on your guard, like a watchman from his tower; for the motion of life will bring us all back to the Event again. And again.
Where you stood yesterday, you might fall today.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Mockery is one of the greatest weapons of the Darkness
In its fight against the Light
And it is one against which Light-seekers and Light-servants
Are powerless and defenceless the most
Because it strikes them at the core of their ego and vanity
The deepest weakness within all human beings.
Bear this in mind:
A helping thought for the earnest seeker.
It will strengthen you in your hour of vulnerability.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
Never tell people who you really are:
If they’re deep enough, they’ll find out by themselves.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Who is mob?
Mob rode into town like a dark wave and ravished, ravaged, raided and destroyed everything in sight. When mob was done, mob dissolved into thin air like smoke in the wind.
Who was mob?
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
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