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In Service of Meaning

Lyrical Zen — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 16:26:19 +0000

Time and time again, you will be reminded that life is fleeting as you bask in a world of impermanence. Humanity’s crisis is, by all means, one of meaning…⁣
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Herein, every emotion has a place and a value – neither repress it nor act on it immediately, for it provides genuine information about the fabric of reality; it reveals what is sacred to you; it signals a direction by which to search for meaning; it summons us to be in service of meaning. ⁣
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Yet within the landscape of meaning, there must be a willingness to live as though life itself was never meant to end — this is the impulse of why you exist, the reason you continue to exhale today. ⁣
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— Lyrical Zen

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Ancestral Mathematics

Lyrical Zen — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:41:06 +0000

In order to be born, you needed:

2 parents
4 grandparents
8 great-grandparents
16 second great-grandparents
32 third great-grandparents
64 fourth great-grandparents
128 fifth great-grandparents
256 sixth great-grandparents
512 seventh great-grandparents
1,024 eighth great-grandparents
2,048 ninth great-grandparents

For you to be born today from 12 previous generations, you needed a total sum of 4,094 ancestors over the last 400 years.

Think for a moment – How many struggles? How many battles? How many difficulties? How much sadness? How much happiness? How many love stories? How many expressions of hope for the future? – did your ancestors have to undergo for you to exist in this present moment…

— Lyrical Zen

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Future Geneses

Lyrical Zen — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 01:41:39 +0000

Enveloped by calescent nights above the nubilous vista, I sudorificly build the armamentarium of future geneses.

Let us breathe both passion and pathos in this self-exposed exile…

— Lyrical Zen

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I See

Lyrical Zen — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 04:31:44 +0000

I see you.
I see your struggle.
I see me.

— Lyrical Zen

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Find us Again

Lyrical Zen — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 15:23:17 +0000

A cruel world obliged us to travail sub rosa; to sacrifice the heart for a greater calling. Yet below the coruscating spine of a nebulous sky, I reminisce the unforgeable paraph of your love.

Perhaps one day, we shall find us again…

— Lyrical Zen

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A Commitment to Understanding

Lyrical Zen — Sun, 06 May 2018 16:33:41 +0000

In all these years working with street gangs and the victims of both structural and behavioral violence, we have learned one thing: it takes commitment to transform pain and awaken hope.

By committing, you inadvertently become a healer for someone else. You meet them beyond the violence; you meet a person with a capacity to love. You uncover something they’ve always longed for – for someone to say, “I understand.”

— Lyrical Zen

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Life and Will

Lyrical Zen — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:53:37 +0000

Life is already flowing towards us and through us; our responsibility is to meet it intentionally, this is what is called — will.

– Lyrical Zen

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One Out of Many

Lyrical Zen — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:26:57 +0000

When we navigate the currents of the soul, we find ourselves within our ancestral consciousness. We are the composite of all events, all happenstance and all circumstances that have transpired throughout the multiverse. Plural in our solitude, singular in our multitude.

Our scars, are the braille of tangled suffering and empathy. Our imagination, is a living legacy of choice, a purposeful consciousness, a community of knowledge and practice. We enter every battle with great sorrow; and even greater compassion. We do not rejoice in victory — the more power we harness, the greater the need for humility.

Lest we forget the innumerable souls that hurt in silence; those abandoned by the moral barbarity of the world; those who have endured the deadening, routinized and alienating commodification of their humanity; and those who yearn for a meaning that transcends atomization, darkness, despair, illness and conflict.

Lest we forget the nameless heroes and exemplars that have transformed impossible dreams into verdant realities; the loving spirits who deliberately host our hopes and aspirations to cultivate moments of divine presence; and those who have sacrificed to create common destinies of purpose and meaning.

Under the aegis of ancestral memory, let us give thanks to that which gives us the moral vigor and permission to do the impossible in the journey to self-becoming. May our work be in service of the visceral freedom of others…

— Lyrical Zen

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True Wealth

Lyrical Zen — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 18:59:21 +0000

True wealth is the freedom to be generous.

— Lyrical Zen

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