PEEVER LAW #104

YOU KNOW YOU'RE ON A WINNING STREAK WHEN THE BOY'S SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT.

TOP SECRET MESSAGE FOR THE NSA

TOP SECRET MESSAGE FOR THE NSA

AS I'M SURE YOU KNOW, THE KEY TO GOOD EAVESDROPPING IS NOT GETTING CAUGHT.

SUNDAY MORNING HYMN #2: Mumford and Sons - Awake my Soul

SUNDAY MORNING SERMON

People are homeless for many reasons. There's plenty of blame to go around. We should not worry about why, we should worry about how to stop, or how to help. With one person or family left homeless, we as a society and person are less than we could be. We should not be satisfied until the rich are less rich and the poor reap the benefit.

SUNDAY MORNING HYMN #1: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - If I Should Fall Behind - Live i...

SUNDAY MORNING PRAYER

KEEPING WATCH

In the morning
When I began to wake,
It happened again---

That feeling
That you, Beloved,
Had stood over me all night
Keeping watch,

That feeling
That as soon as I began to stir

You put Your lips on my forehead
And lit a Holy Lamp
Inside my heart.

Hafiz, rendering by Daniel Ladinsky

Wage Wars: Bangladeshi Workers Reach a Boiling Point | Common Dreams

Wage Wars: Bangladeshi Workers Reach a Boiling Point | Common Dreams

This is going to happen more and more frequently in countries that our corporations are exploiting. Hello unions. Goodbye, slave labor.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
Rumi

WHO IS LEFT STANDING?

ON THIS BATTLEFIELD WE HAVE ENTERED, WHO
IS LEFT STANDING? IT IS THE WOMAN AND MAN OF INTEGRITY.

ON THIS BATTLEFIELD WHERE WE HAVE COME,
WHO IS LEFT TO TELL THE TALE AS IT SHOULD BE
TOLD? IT IS THE WOMAN AND MAN OF PRAYER.

Rumi- rendering by Daniel Ladinsky

DISTRACTIONS

• Globalization distracts us from the systematic dismantling of labor unions.
• Intelligent design distracts us from intelligence.
• Shopping malls on the outskirts of town distract us from downtown.
• The Victoria Secret Holiday Special was a major distraction. 
• Speaker of the House Boehner is a distraction from  common sense and decency.
• The oil industry distracts us from developing alternative energy sources. 
• Cell phones are a major distraction for drivers.
• How many times have I been distracted by tight jeans?
• The corporate, political news media distracts us from the truth.
• Right-wing Christians distract us from finding God.
• Alcohol and drugs distract many people from becoming the person they would want to be.
• I get distracted when they put up graffiti in the john. The end result is I usually pee down my leg.
• Fear is a distraction used by right-wing Republicans.
• I pay a lot of taxes to help support a lot of other retirement programs, which is a major distraction to my own. 
• Flags and mottoes and creeds and slogans are distractions from compassion, justice, diversity, and peace.
• Authority is a distraction, often used in place of competence.

Canada's Neo-Con Government Silences Scientists, Sides With Corporate Interests | Common Dreams

Canada's Neo-Con Government Silences Scientists, Sides With Corporate Interests | Common Dreams

Canada is looking more like the U.S. And I wouldn't consider that good.

Let Them Not Eat: The Christian Path to Worthiness | Common Dreams

Let Them Not Eat: The Christian Path to Worthiness | Common Dreams

The last word that would come to my mind to call this right-wing lunatics is Christian. 

In Stinging Rebuke at UN, Brazilian President Rails Against NSA Spying | Common Dreams

In Stinging Rebuke at UN, Brazilian President Rails Against NSA Spying | Common Dreams

No wonder Obama was stuttering.

Obamacare Premiums Look Good, But Medicare-For-All Would Be Better | Common Dreams

Obamacare Premiums Look Good, But Medicare-For-All Would Be Better | Common Dreams

Universal health-care would have been best. Insurance companies will rape Obomacare for billions. Premiums will hopefully be reasonable for individuals, but will be high for the governments portion.The government should have more control of the health-care costs. Medicare for all would have been better.
Congressmen should be on the same system we are.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is a cat."
Lemony Snicket

QUESTIONS ABOUT "THE PEEVER"

• Do you know anything about anything? I know a little about a lot and hardly anything about most things that matter.
• How long have you been writing this crap?  Too long.
• Have you written any books?  Several. The last was, "Why All Politicians Are Perfect Assholes."  I wrote it with a proctologist from Jersey.
• Where do you get all your goofy material from?  I read the Hot Springs Village Voice.
• Do you have any idea how many people you offend? At last count, about 90%. The other 10% can't read.
• Are all of your statistics and facts accurate? In the twenty years I wrote this column, I have made two mistakes. I mentioned most people don't believe in the Easter Bunny, and that the legislators in Arkansas all seem to be above average intelligence. I was wrong on both accounts. 
•  Are you accountable to anyone for what you write? I figure I'm only accountable to my higher power, but my wife seldom reads what I write. So I'm pretty much home free. 
• You sure don't like Tom Cotton, our new federal representative. What's the deal?  He stinks of right-wing stupidity.  And I hate the smell.

BUMPER STICKER OF THE WEEK

NEVER SAY "HELLO" TO AN ATTORNEY AND EXPECT NOT TO PAY FOR IT.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

SUNDAY MORNING SERMON

The Quality Of Mercy

The quality of mercy is not strain'd.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown.
His scepter shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptered sway;
It is enthroned in the heart of kings;
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice.

William Shakespeare

SUNDAY MORNING HYMN: Dave Matthews Band Summer Tour Warm Up - Mercy 5.25.12

SUNDAY MORNING SCRIPTURE

“Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.”
George Carlin

TRUTHS

DEATH IS A DEAL YOU CANNOT APPEAL.

Moyers & Company: Inequality for All | Common Dreams

Moyers & Company: Inequality for All | Common Dreams

WAYS TO EXPLAIN THE DOWNWARD TREND IN HUMANITY

1. Blame the monkeys. If that don't work, blame the politicians. But I repeat myself.
2. It could be the fluoride in the water.
3. I personally think things started going to hell when Jack Benny died.
4. Wal-Mart.
5. Too many people, not enough disease.
6. Perfumed toilet paper. Makes even assholes smell good.
7. The decline of intelligent sperm.
8. The increasing gap between the rich and the poor. And the rich and the richer.
9. We got too many right-wing Republicans with too many crazy ideas.
10. If it's not the monkeys, the fluoride, Wal-Mart, the right-wing Republicans, or perfumed toilet paper, then it must be... I'm pretty sure it's the right-wing Republicans.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”  

Paulo Coelho, Alchemist

HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OUT OF YOUR LIFE

• Try to take the positive things in your life and use them to your advantage. Don't paint yourself into a corner. Keep as many options open as you can. 
• Sleep at least 6-8 hours per night. It takes you unconscious mind at least that long to straighten you out.
• Put work no higher than 5th on your priority list.
• Do something worthwhile for someone else at least once per day.
• Never hand feed an alligator.
• Read a lot. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry. Give up the dime-store novels and check-out isle tabloids. They only clutter up your mind with nonsense.
• Never take the advice of anyone claiming to know "the truth" or "the way." It will either screw you up or you will end up screwed.
• Give yourself a break. You're going to make mistakes. The best you can hope for is they won't be fatal.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"I know what the cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world."
Henry Miller

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.”
W.C. Fields

HOW TO IDENTIFY YOURSELF AS A CURMUDGEON

(First, a definition. Curmudgeon: a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man. An old person full of stubborn notions).

• If someone is nice to you, you immediately grab hold of your wallet.
• You expect the worst out of people, and are generally not disappointed.
• You remain skeptical about a virgin birth.
• You wonder how "random acts of stupidity" can keep getting elected.
• You still think computers may have been invented by the devil.
• How can a car possibly be more expensive than a house?
• You love potlucks, but hate the socialization.
• Left-wing and right-wing people frighten you, although you would much sooner have gone to a dinner party with Marx than with Hitler.
• All those years we worried about communists when we should have been worried about Republicans and Democrats.

NUMBER 11: Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros Live on Letterman - Man On Fire - 2012

Sending A Strong Message: Unelected Detroit Officials Shut Off Power Downtown Because Ha That'll Show Residents Who Didn't Cut Back Like He Told 'Em To | Common Dreams

Sending A Strong Message: Unelected Detroit Officials Shut Off Power Downtown Because Ha That'll Show Residents Who Didn't Cut Back Like He Told 'Em To | Common Dreams

PEEVER LAW #95

The more businessmen who show up for a meeting, the more likely it's a Republican National Convention.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“[Walmart]s largest innovation consists in getting rid of the central Fordist principle of paying the workers enough so that they can afford to buy what they manufacture. Instead, WalMart has pioneered the inverse principle: paying the workers so little that they cannot afford to shop anywhere other than at WalMart. It might even be said, not too hyperbolically, that WalMart has singlehandedly preserved the American economy from total collapse, in that their lowered prices are the only thing that has allowed millions of the “working poor” to retain the status of consumers at all, rather than falling into the “black hole” of total immiseration. WalMart is part and parcel of how the “new economy” has largely been founded upon transferring wealth from the less wealthy to the already-extremely-rich. ”
Steven Shaviro

ILLUSIONS

WELCOME TO CHRYSTAL BRIDGES, BUILD BY CHEATING OUR EMPLOYEES, FOR THE BENEFIT OF MANKIND.

Made In America: Wal-Mart's Gluttony, or How the Waltons Get To Keep Their Grubby Paws On Most of Their Billions | Common Dreams

Made In America: Wal-Mart's Gluttony, or How the Waltons Get To Keep Their Grubby Paws On Most of Their Billions | Common Dreams

The Banality of Systemic Evil | Common Dreams

The Banality of Systemic Evil | Common Dreams

SUNDAY MORNING SERMON-NOW YOU ARE MORE

You may not think I know you, but I do. You yearn for a better country, better community, a better lifestyle, more satisfying relationships. You know war will not bring us peace, violence does not bring reconciliation, television will not improve our lives, guns will not make us safer, the rich don't need government handouts, politicians should not be self-serving. You realize prisons do not rehabilitate people, capital punishment will not mend a broken heart, bankrupting people over health-care is immoral. You know above all knowing that having affairs is an illusion of love, that drugs and alcohol will not improve our lives, that gambling takes away hope, it does not create it. You are looking for the truth. But what is the truth? That you can be more.

SUNDAY MORNING SCRIPTURE

“I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.”
Bill Maher

SUNDAY MORNING HYMN: Tom Morello - "King of Hell"

PEEVER LAW #102

You can get beat down for only so long. Then it's time to stand up and fight.

The Pesky Poor | Common Dreams

The Pesky Poor | Common Dreams

The "Great Reckoning" is right around the corner.

PEEVER LAW #85

DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU THINK.

DESTINY

It's tough on young men these days. The old men got all the money, and foreigners got all the jobs. Leaves them very little. Many sell drugs and go to prison. The rest join the army. I doubt any of us wanted that for our sons.

DREAMS

If it weren't for dreams, lead would always be just that. Lead. Our destiny lies in changing it to gold.

PEEVER LAW #31

Yes and no are perfectly acceptable answers to most questions.

The 5 Most Ludicrous War Claims in Obama’s Syria Speech | Common Dreams

The 5 Most Ludicrous War Claims in Obama’s Syria Speech | Common Dreams

A CONVERSATION WITH THE DARK SIDE

• Hell is no further down the street than the first hungry child or the homeless person you walk by. 
• Eve would have been better off with the snake.
• Dying is not near as hard as living.
• Killing and destruction have always been popular with humans.
• There is no necessity for the human race to survive. Time could care less.
• You think you know the "truth." How is it you believe you are so important as to know "the truth."
• If you find yourself in a state of mental confusion, where things just don't seem to add up, welcome to the Dark Side.

The Raconteurs - 'Old Enough' (Feat. Ricky Skaggs & Ashley Monroe)

Dispatch - "The General" LIVE at the Red Bull Arena

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.”
George Orwell

WAR SICK

• WAR IS ALWAYS A FAILURE.
• WAR RESULTS IN ANGER, DISMAY, AND REGRET.
• WAR IS FOR THE RICH AND FOUGHT BY THE POOR.
• GLORIFYING COMBAT IS A FOOLS GAME.
• THERE IS NO HONOR IN WAR.
• TODAY, WE HAVE COUNTLESS HOLIDAYS, SPORTING EVENTS, TV PROGRAMS, CELEBRATING WAR. YOU, TO, CAN BE A HERO.

SUNDAY MORNING PRAYER

DEAR GOD,
PLEASE HELP. WE ARE IN DEEP TROUBLE. I USUALLY WOULD NOT ASK YOU TO HELP ANY SPECIFIC COUNTRY, BUT WE ARE IN NEED OF AN INTERVENTION. IT WOULD HELP IF YOU COULD MAKE WASHINGTON DISAPPEAR, BUT I DOUBT YOU WOULD DO THAT. AND IT WOULD BE HARD TO FIND A TIME WHEN THE PRESIDENT IS THERE. SO I'LL ASK YOU FOR SOMETHING MORE MUNDANE, LIKE GIVE THE PRESIDENT A BRAIN, OR SEND CONGRESS BACK TO THEIR HOME PLANET. AS FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ELECT THESE MORONS, I CAN ONLY ASK YOU TO I CAN ONLY ASK YOU TO HAVE MERCY ON THEIR WALLETS. WE HAVE ENDURED ALMOST ONE YEAR OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST LUNATIC. I SHOULD THINK THAT'S ENOUGH. HELL AND DAMNATION WOULD BE A BETTER ALTERNATIVE. AT ANY RATE, PLEASE HEAR MY PETITION AND PLEASE GIVE IT SOME CONSIDERATION. AFTER ALL, IT IS YOU WHO HAS TO BEAR SOME OF THE BURDEN. YOU DID INVENT US, ALTHOUGH I'M SURE BY NOW YOU REALIZE THAT WAS A MISTAKE.

SUNDAY MORNING HYMN: Dave Matthews Band - The Dreaming Tree

SUNDAY MORNING SCRIPTURE

“Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean––make sure they know what they mean!”
John Irving

PEEVER LAW #94

If you run out of worthwhile things to say, become a politician.

Syria: Six Alternatives to Military Strikes by Sarah van Gelder — YES! Magazine

Syria: Six Alternatives to Military Strikes by Sarah van Gelder — YES! Magazine

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
 Benjamin Franklin

PEEVER LAW #36

Eventually, it will all come down to death and dying.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Alcohol is the anethesia by which we endure the operation of life.”
― George Bernard Shaw

ALCOHOL-THE ELIXIR OF FALSE PROMISES

I looked through the police report in the Village Voice this week. Out of all the reports I could attribute 1 to dementia, 5 to alcohol, and one a seeming mixture of alcohol and dementia. (A note: Alcohol can cause dementia). That's a pretty high number. To say we have an alcohol problem would be a huge understatement. I would say it is time to dry out. Alcohol will not make aging any better, only more distant.

Are Democrat Lawmakers Immune to Public's Growing Anti-War Outcry? | Common Dreams

Are Democrat Lawmakers Immune to Public's Growing Anti-War Outcry? | Common Dreams

REPUBLICRATS!

BOYCOTT INDIANA

Former right-wing Governor of Indiana, Mitch Daniels, now President of Purdue University, tries to discredit Howard Zinn, radical historian, author of  "The People's History of the U.S." Now, Howard Zinn is one of my favorite humans, much less my favorite historian. Daniels waited until his death to launch his attack, cause Howard would have sliced him up and paved a road with him. So it's boycott Indiana, which I wasn't really figuring on going to anyway. The Hoosier State seems to lean right. So did my grandpa's outhouse.

WARS

Our politicians in Washington seem to be able to unite in our wayward efforts to start wars. Maybe we should call health-care a war, shoring up Social Security and Medicare a war, education a war, climate control a war, poverty a war. Oh crap, I guess we've tried that. I remember a War on Drugs, and a War on Poverty. And we lost both.

PEEVER LAW #102

WARS WOULD END IMMEDIATELY IF YOUR LEADERS WERE ASSIGNED FRONT ROW SEATS.

NEIL YOUNG & GRAHAM NASH - War song

Where Labor Day Came From, and Where It's Going | Common Dreams

Where Labor Day Came From, and Where It's Going | Common Dreams

LABOR DAY SONG-Tom Morello - Union Song - Wal-Mart Protest Los Angeles

LABOR DAY QUOTE

“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”
Eugene Victor Debs

THIS LABOR DAY

Support those people who are protesting against Wal-Mart and McDonald's. They are carrying on the struggle for reasonable compensation for their labor. Hundreds have died in the pursuit of the 5 day work week, reasonable pay, health-care, retirement benefits, sick pay. Right-wing Republicans and American corporations have once again made it necessary to protest the injustices of capitalism. This labor day has nothing to do with the military, and everything to do with the average American, trying to survive in an economy that favors the rich, and needs the poor for cheap labor.

SUNDAY MORNING HYMN-Eddi Reader - Allelujah - Live At The Basement

SUNDAY MORNING PRAYER

The War Prayer by Mark Twain

was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fluttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory which stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener. It was indeed a glad and gracious time, and the half dozen rash spirits that ventured to disapprove of the war and cast a doubt upon its righteousness straightway got such a stern and angry warning that for their personal safety's sake they quickly shrank out of sight and offended no more in that way.

Sunday morning came – next day the battalions would leave for the front; the church was filled; the volunteers were there, their young faces alight with martial dreams – visions of the stern advance, the gathering momentum, the rushing charge, the flashing sabers, the flight of the foe, the tumult, the enveloping smoke, the fierce pursuit, the surrender! Then home from the war, bronzed heroes, welcomed, adored, submerged in golden seas of glory! With the volunteers sat their dear ones, proud, happy, and envied by the neighbors and friends who had no sons and brothers to send forth to the field of honor, there to win for the flag, or, failing, die the noblest of noble deaths. The service proceeded; a war chapter from the Old Testament was read; the first prayer was said; it was followed by an organ burst that shook the building, and with one impulse the house rose, with glowing eyes and beating hearts, and poured out that tremendous invocation – "God the all-terrible! Thou who ordainest! Thunder thy clarion and lightning thy sword!"

Then came the "long" prayer. None could remember the like of it for passionate pleading and moving and beautiful language. The burden of its supplication was, that an ever-merciful and benignant Father of us all would watch over our noble young soldiers, and aid, comfort, and encourage them in their patriotic work; bless them, shield them in the day of battle and the hour of peril, bear them in His mighty hand, make them strong and confident, invincible in the bloody onset; help them to crush the foe, grant to them and to their flag and country imperishable honor and glory –

An aged stranger entered and moved with slow and noiseless step up the main aisle, his eyes fixed upon the minister, his long body clothed in a robe that reached to his feet, his head bare, his white hair descending in a frothy cataract to his shoulders, his seamy face unnaturally pale, pale even to ghastliness. With all eyes following him and wondering, he made his silent way; without pausing, he ascended to the preacher's side and stood there waiting. With shut lids the preacher, unconscious of his presence, continued with his moving prayer, and at last finished it with the words, uttered in fervent appeal, "Bless our arms, grant us the victory, O Lord our God, Father and Protector of our land and flag!"

The stranger touched his arm, motioned him to step aside – which the startled minister did – and took his place. During some moments he surveyed the spellbound audience with solemn eyes, in which burned an uncanny light; then in a deep voice he said:

"I come from the Throne – bearing a message from Almighty God!" The words smote the house with a shock; if the stranger perceived it he gave no attention. "He has heard the prayer of His servant your shepherd, and will grant it if such shall be your desire after I, His messenger, shall have explained to you its import – that is to say, its full import. For it is like unto many of the prayers of men, in that it asks for more than he who utters it is aware of – except he pause and think.

"God's servant and yours has prayed his prayer. Has he paused and taken thought? Is it one prayer? No, it is two – one uttered, the other not. Both have reached the ear of Him Who heareth all supplications, the spoken and the unspoken. Ponder this – keep it in mind. If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time. If you pray for the blessing of rain upon your crop which needs it, by that act you are possibly praying for a curse upon some neighbor's crop which may not need rain and can be injured by it.

"You have heard your servant's prayer – the uttered part of it. I am commissioned of God to put into words the other part of it – that part which the pastor – and also you in your hearts – fervently prayed silently. And ignorantly and unthinkingly? God grant that it was so! You heard these words: 'Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!' That is sufficient. The whole of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words. Elaborations were not necessary. When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory – must follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!
"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle – be Thou near them! With them – in spirit – we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it – for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
(After a pause.) "Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! – The messenger of the Most High waits!"
It was believed afterward that the man was a lunatic, because there was no sense in what he said.

SUNDAY MORING SERMON

You cannot seek spiritual wellness outside of yourself. You will not find it in books or in the words of others. No one needs to tell you of it. In looking for the Holy, look in a mirror.