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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396418" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode To Mankind</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Prologue: <br>	<br>	To the majority of people who seem to have lost touch<br>	this is presented as a declaration to be treated as such.<br>	And just for the world's deteriorating natural environment<br>	of which we're all a contributing cause by our embodiment.<br>	We hardly ever stop and consider how wasteful a life we lead<br>	but continue on for the sake of progress despite our real need.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">					~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">	O mankind of this planet called Earth! <br>	What is the purpose of Human birth? <br>	You are here only for just a short time, <br>	why not make the most of your prime? <br>	You turn hither and thither all over the place<br>	away from yourselves and thus fall from grace.<br>	You're always looking for treasure out there<br>	yet, most of the time, you end up in despair.<br>	You usually hold on to the things that pass away<br>	and short lasting values are the order of the day.<br>	You create and get involved in all sorts of strife, <br>	complicating an otherwise beautiful simple life.<br>	You want easily to know all of life's secrets<br>	and go about seemingly without any regrets.<br>	You crowd your own heart with many selfish desires<br>	and go vying for the things the other person acquires.<br>	You do seldom ever stop and reflect on your past<br>	nor consider how much longer the present will last.<br>	You deem everything to be unchanging and real<br>	and think that life is a mysterious one way deal.<br>	You're always the one who either gains or loses<br>	one thing or another depending on who chooses.<br>	You esteem progress of the economical and material<br>	and go hankering madly after the status of the imperial.<br>	You generally prefer to receive than to give or share<br>	and take delight in sense pleasures without much care.<br>	You are very skeptical about the worth of any spiritual ideals<br>	and often reject or ignore what another person sees and feels.<br>	You kill your own kind with or without much reason<br>	and the weather you unknowingly put out of season.<br>	You tend to think there's nothing more than what can be seen<br>	and rely much on the senses for most of that which you glean.<br>	You find it hard to acknowledge a power higher than your own<br>	and in the entire universe somehow believe that you are alone.<br>	<br>	You have desecrated and laid waste vast areas of land<br>	and made extinct many of the creatures by your hand.<br>	You have carelessly polluted a lot of the water, land and air<br>	and now wonder why it's no longer the same place out there.<br>	You have strangled the earth; strapped it down with cement and mortar<br>	cut down and burnt most of the trees that were giving food and shelter.<br>	You celebrate your own birth or death with much pomp and show<br>	yet beyond this present life very little are you ever willing to know.<br>	You know well the term 'from dust we came and to dust we return'<br>	but what you are really, or can become, will apparently never learn.<br>	You think only that you are made of bones, flesh and blood, <br>	wondering how on earth you could get wiped out by a flood.<br>	You do not fathom the effects or results of your actions<br>	assuming what you get away with has no repercussions. <br>  <br>					~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>Epilogue: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">	You must realise that you live in a huge world of duality<br>	and don't have to endure the pairs of opposites infinitely; <br>	pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow, love and hate, good and bad, <br>	friend and foe, day and night, heat and cold, rich and poor it's sad<br>	the list does go on and on indefinitely it seems<br>	even beyond that we experience in our dreams.<br>	We should avoid going to the extremes of these<br>	then we can get to rise above them and so please<br>	our True Self which is the inner witness of our existence<br>	remaining forever unchanging not showing any resistance.<br>	But usually coming through as the voice of conscience sometimes<br>	like the law of justice towards the severity of small or great crimes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">-------------------------</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Krokos">George Krokos</a><div class=q>
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