"A love arrow up in the air, falling on Elsie's dark sweet hair." ~Yesu Ben
"A transitional (revolutionary) government towards the adoption of a federal government is extra-constitutional and broader than Martial Law." ~Yesu Ben, 30 August 2017
"Age allows us to realize that the ride was near over but we cannot forget to keep enjoying it. We ought to die with a big "yey! what a ride it was!", beer on one hand, and a lady's embrace on the other. Life is good but why people get too attached to wealth, credentials, a good physique is all but shallow to me. Let us die with a totally broken body, happy and our basket filled with wisdom and love." ~Yesu Ben, on Destiny in Haiku @Leah C. Dancel Copyright@2021
"At end of day, we take off this garment and don one for rest. The next day, we put on new clothes ready for the next round of lessons. As Lord Tennyson said 'Death is a laughable impossibility'". ~Yesu Ben , January 8, 2020
"At end of day, we take off this garment and don one for rest. The next day, we put on new clothes ready for the next round of lessons. As Lord Tennyson said 'Death is a laughable impossibility'". ~Yesu Ben , January 8, 2020
"Blessed are those few who see what they see, and feel what they feel, and are given the chance to appreciate the being-ness of it all. For the entirety will never be complete when even the smallest ant cannot complete the chain that assures the next step towards our becoming. We must therefore strive to come to the aid of the universe and to express fearlessly our stand which is to assure that evolution is allowed to occur naturally in all of us." ~Yesu Ben, September 1, 2018 on Intimacy with Mother Nature
"But gentle ways are slow,
and indeed curb the fire
of strong intentions
propelled by sharp contentions."
~Yesu Ben, August 31, 2017
"Death forces us to face ourselves to help us sieve out what is unwanted in our characters." ~Yesu Ben
"Each man has a path that he must tread. It is important that he walks through it alone. In this pathless land of a million pathways, we seek which one will bring us there." ~Yesu Ben
"Everyday is perfect because each living day gives us the opportunity to grow." ~Yesu Ben
"I admire women who handwash." ~Yesu Ben, August 13, 2017
"I remember the nice smell of clothes drying under the sun...it gives me some sentimental feeling." ~Yesu Ben, August 13, 2017
"It is in the silent wisdom of little things that fear is made distant." ~Yesu Ben on Finding My Heart June 7, 2021
"It is never easy to attain that (matriarch) level which often, through life, is resisted for man is ever afraid of change. But you've done it, congrats, you have earned enough points to be considered a wizened person." ~Yesu Ben on my #FPB Model Entry, July 21, 2021
"Life brings us to different directions for different reasons which are all necessary. Accept that you drifted apart for a good reason." ~Yesu Ben, 5 October 2018
"Life brings us to different directions for different reasons which are all necessary. Accept that you drifted apart for a good reason." ~Yesu Ben, 5 October 2018
"Most of us are misunderstood but often by ourselves. It doesn't really matter how they see us. What matters is how we see ourselves," ~Yesu Ben, June 29, 2021
"Moving forward is not always that easily to some people - some who struggle lifelong to truly find themselves...we all are manacled to some psychological, mental or emotional attachment, some conditioning, some bad past choice, culture, some addiction, some social situation, culture, perhaps even to something as black as revenge. or something as flimsy as cigarettes." ~Yesu Ben
"Mr. Alejandrino is asking us to prepare for a revolution that is big, and ripe and imminent. It is not a thing of whim but a clamoring from the people themselves - clamoring that's began a long time ago. We need to psyche ourselves up." ~YESU BEN, August 2017
"Moving forward is not always that easily to some people - some who struggle lifelong to truly find themselves...we all are manacled to some psychological, mental or emotional attachment, some conditioning, some bad past choice, culture, some addiction, some social situation, culture, perhaps even to something as black as revenge. or something as flimsy as cigarettes." ~Yesu Ben
"Mr. Alejandrino is asking us to prepare for a revolution that is big, and ripe and imminent. It is not a thing of whim but a clamoring from the people themselves - clamoring that's began a long time ago. We need to psyche ourselves up." ~YESU BEN, August 2017
"My mother handwashed clothes until her fingers no longer could and that was when she started to use coin laundry. I like childhood memories of playing around the clothesline area." ~Yesu Ben, #childhood_nostalgia, #handwashing, August 13, 2017
"Only Pain is the True Poetry for pain is the lot of us humans." ~Yesu Ben
"Our garden can still bloom beautiful flowers that will delight everyone. I submit to this dream and swear to help out in ways that i can." ~Yesu Ben
"Peace is the prerequisite to happiness and health." ~Yesu Ben
"Poets are cursed to be eternally lost souls, but that is only until by their pen writ the perfect poem." ~Yesu Ben
"Self respect, integrity and self worth fundamentally serve as our standard in our outlook on life." ~Yesu Ben, March 24, 2018 comment related to TAPANG at MALASAKIT
"Self respect, integrity and self worth fundamentally serve as our standard in our outlook on life." ~Yesu Ben, March 24, 2018 comment related to TAPANG at MALASAKIT
"She deeply recognizes the strengths of her own humanity and in doing so deeply recognizes as well the ambitions and the sense of purpose that make us human." ~Yesu Ben on Finding My Heart's author Maria Evelyn Quilla-Soleta
"There are a lot of good things about ageing - I think that there are more good things about it than youth. For wisdom is as precious as gold and often, only aged people are allowed to have it." ~Yesu Ben
"We may have to face the wind on our faces, for the wind shapes us and pain re-creates us." ~Yesu Ben
"We need faith, hard work and dedication towards the fulfillment of the Filipino dream." ~Yesu Ben
ATTRIBUTES
“A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.” ~George RR Martin
"Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair." ~John Bowlby
"Racism will never end as long as white cars are stil using black tyres. Racism will never end if people still use black to symbolise bad luck and white for peace. Racism will never end if people still wear white clothes to weddings and black clothes to funerals. Racism will never end as long as those who don't pay their bills are blacklisted not white listed. Even when playing Pool, You haven't won until you've sunk the black ball, and the white ball must remain on the table. But I don't care, as long as I'm still using white toilet paper to wipe my black ass I'm happy." ~Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe President
“The poignant wish for a tranquil life will find no sanctuary in today’s world. We live in a revolutionary era. It is an era of swift, violent, often disruptive change, and rather than lament this vainly, we have to decide whether we should be the masters or victims of change.” ~President Ferdinand E. Marcos, Today’s Revolution: Democracy, 1971.
"The Westminster Parliamentary System is the way to go...it focuses on a change in political culture from idealisation of personalities to a scrutiny of platforms and manifestos." ~Fr. Rannie Aquino (from Yesu Ben)
"We may have to face the wind on our faces, for the wind shapes us and pain re-creates us." ~Yesu Ben
"We need faith, hard work and dedication towards the fulfillment of the Filipino dream." ~Yesu Ben
ATTRIBUTES
“A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.” ~George RR Martin
"Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair." ~John Bowlby
"Racism will never end as long as white cars are stil using black tyres. Racism will never end if people still use black to symbolise bad luck and white for peace. Racism will never end if people still wear white clothes to weddings and black clothes to funerals. Racism will never end as long as those who don't pay their bills are blacklisted not white listed. Even when playing Pool, You haven't won until you've sunk the black ball, and the white ball must remain on the table. But I don't care, as long as I'm still using white toilet paper to wipe my black ass I'm happy." ~Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe President
“The poignant wish for a tranquil life will find no sanctuary in today’s world. We live in a revolutionary era. It is an era of swift, violent, often disruptive change, and rather than lament this vainly, we have to decide whether we should be the masters or victims of change.” ~President Ferdinand E. Marcos, Today’s Revolution: Democracy, 1971.
"The Westminster Parliamentary System is the way to go...it focuses on a change in political culture from idealisation of personalities to a scrutiny of platforms and manifestos." ~Fr. Rannie Aquino (from Yesu Ben)
"We are not the clothes that we wear, nor the credentials that we earn, nor the reputation that we build. Neither are we this body that we pamper with food, exercise and perfume and adorn with jewelry and expensive bling-blings. Nor are we what we feel, the emotions that try to take control our reactions. Nor are we our thoughts nor our mind and mental faculties - these things are not us. Nor are we the causal body which is only an accumulation of Karmic credits and debits that shape our future bodies, here or in the next life. We are not this - this physical self because this physical self is temporary. We are the eternal rider that mounts on chariot after chariot. We are not the print but the words of the book. This physical aspect is only our Earth clothes which we take off when night has arrived so that we can don on new ones come the morning after." ~Yesu Ben
"When we look at life as one thing fed to us or forced upon us, then death becomes a burden. But when we see that we are here to contribute, then we will see that the person who leaves us, no matter how short a stint he's had with us, like a 4-day old baby who died, came here to help us further our journey. His role gave him a springboard or a stepping stone to bring him come closer to his goal as well. We helped him as he helped us. With that in mind, we come to a spirit of gratitude rather than to a feeling of deprivation." ~Yesu Ben, August 26, 2020
VERSE
KUBLA KHAN
"And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!"
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ON WINTER
"Long grey days of standstill, days of desolate frost;
Winter childbirths gloomiest thoughts, of loved ones we have lost.
Why heavy feelings come – why linger with the snow;
Why when there's no sun solacing, why when the sprouts can’t grow.
This stretches on and on, this sea of white and grey;
Its beauty simply is not real, like mem’ry dimmed away."
By Yesu Ben
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VERSE
KUBLA KHAN
"And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!"
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ON WINTER
"Long grey days of standstill, days of desolate frost;
Winter childbirths gloomiest thoughts, of loved ones we have lost.
Why heavy feelings come – why linger with the snow;
Why when there's no sun solacing, why when the sprouts can’t grow.
This stretches on and on, this sea of white and grey;
Its beauty simply is not real, like mem’ry dimmed away."
By Yesu Ben
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