David Given Schwarm

Married, Father, United

Tag: Prayer

  • 46. Three Treasures

    All the world avows
    that while Tao is great, it is questionable!
    It is its greatness
    that makes it appear questionable.
    If it were not questoinable,
    it would long ago have been seen as truth.

    I have three treasures:
    simplicity, patience, and compassion.
    With simplicity I return to the source.
    With patience I become understanding,
    With compassion I can love.

    Some people forsake simplicity for decorum.
    The abandon patience and become violent.
    They forgo compassion and strive for control.
    But what Nature wants to preserve
    it endows with my three treasures.

  • XXI–The Universe


    The end of the major arcana is this very happy card. Completion and the bliss of understanding.

  • Ascension

    1. Listen
    2. Be impressionistic not instructional
    3. Know the steps of the big book
    4. Make sure all my debts are paid
    5. Understand the value of saving accounts
    6. Take Kate to Paris
    7. I do not have all that much faith in my fellow man–the insensitivity that I am working through is not that great
    8. Be on time.

  • 18. Learning

    Dispense with your learning
    and save yourselves anxiety;
    the difference between “certain”
    and “perhaps”
    is not much after all

    Can learning help one distinguish
    between good and evil?

    Alas! but the learned will never be free
    from their folly.
    They are filled with ambition,
    as the bull is filled with lust.

  • Closely

    1. Listen very closely
    2. be sure that I am honest
    3. More records are often taken for granted
    4. I am sure that there is a lower voice that I can use
    5. I need to be consistent
    6. There are more ways to do things then there are things
    7. I am ready to go home.

  • Happy

    1. Be happy
    2. Make your time count
    3. There is still more time to make sure that things count
    4. Understand the event that happens
    5. Local energy is tough

  • 21. Adaptability

    Those who adapt themselves
    will be preserved until the end.

    That which bends can be straightened.
    That which is empty can be filled.
    That which is worn away can be renewed.

    The Sage embraces simplicity.
    Not being ostentations, the Sage shines.
    Not being egotistic, the Sage is praised.
    Not being vain, the Sage is estemmed.
    Not being haughty, the Sage is honored.

    The Sage does not complete with others,
    and therefore has no enemies.

  • Direction

    1. Take Direction
    2. Do not be sarcastic
    3. Fulfill your destiny
    4. Do what you are paid to do
    5. Know the difference between surrender and submission
    6. Exercise routine is routine

  • Elder Herman of Mt. Athos

    Humility is the only thing we need; one can still fall having
    virtues other than humility — but with humility one does not
    fall.

  • Surah LI 20-21

    And in the earth there are signs for those who are sure and in your own souls too, will you not there see.