21 - Twenty-One
Shih Ho / Biting Through

The merciless, searing judgement of Lightning fulfills the warning prophecies of distant Thunder.
Sage rulers preserved Justice by clearly defining the laws, and by delivering the penalties decreed.

Though unpleasant, it is best to let justice have its due.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

A terrible reckoning is due.
A wrong will be righted — and even if it has been you who has been wronged, you will tremble at the terrible power of Justice untempered by Mercy.
Pray for your oppressor, that his punishment will fit his crime.

Day 26

Deep feelings of sorrow show the potential to move to the other extreme, bliss. — Amma

All your thoughts and actions pass through God. — Amma

If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. 
You leave the same impression 
Of something beautiful, but annihilating. 
Both of you are great light borrowers. 
Her O-mouth grieves at the world; yours is unaffected.

And your first gift is making stone out of everything. 
I wake to a mausoleum; you are here….

Ticking your fingers on the marble table
Spiteful as a woman, but not so nervous, 
And dying to say something unanswerable. 

The moon, too, abuses her subjects

-The Rival

Sylvia Plath

Day 23

Soon I will lift from this ocean of death-bound worldly existence, those whose minds are ever set on Me—those who abandon to Me the fruits of their actions together with the sense of agency thereof, and who worship Me, meditating on Me as their sole refuge and their only love—Bhagavad Gita