My Favorite Verses - Vol IV (Nov 16 to Feb 17)

Indeed, this frustration was seen in Lao Tsu, who supposedly had given up on
the ethically bankrupt citizens of his homeland and was actually leaving them to
live his final days as a hermit when he paused on the way to pen the now famous
(and quite brilliant) Tao Te Ching. And a similar frustration was seen in Jesus
Christ when he did everything but get on his knees and beg his followers to make
the necessary leap of Faith into living (and thereby finally truly understanding) his
teachings on selfless Love. Indeed, Jesus’ frustrations with the abject selfishness
of the masses that followed him became so acute that his regular, peace-seeking,
solo-treks to various mountaintops no longer sufficed, and he ultimately departed
from Judea after a ministry that only lasted three years. And yet before he did so,
he offered them this particular gem (among many hundreds of similarly brilliant
sayings & parables) – a beacon of simple Truth that reminds us that we are not to
worry or fret when the vast majority of our listeners reject our teachings – that we
are only seeking to awaken those sleepers who are already on the verge of
awakening; the 1% of the 1% of those still slightly slumbering who will willingly
Hear our Way’s Wisdom, who will willingly open their eyes thereto, and then who
will then willingly set forth to enliven the same – to thereafter deeply feel its
undeniable Truth for themselves … We are to share our Truths with the rest of
humanity as well, of course – seeing as how indeed all have been so Called (even
though very few will choose to answer). And yet when we see that the sleepers will
not awaken, we need not fight with their slumber. Rather, we must simply kiss
them gently on their foreheads, snugly tuck them into their chosen drone of dreamsteeped
ignorance, and wish them well as we depart … We do so knowing that at
the latest on their deathbeds they too will rise UP from their drowsiness, though
we pray as we depart that another will come and help them awaken well before
that terminable (and often most terrible) time.
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