The Everyday Human

Tear Those Castles Down


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June 9

Blossoms of honesty on the branches between the leaves.

With kindness, you turn to those crawling upon the blighted sands toward your feet, you crouch low, and let them eat of the fruit of the tree of thought. 

Returning to form, they stand. 

Shrieks of pain and wrath from the castle. It is what those rulers fear most: this unflinching thought, spreading like a cure for the plague, anarchic and lawless—merciless to their privilege, indifferent to their authority. A thought that looks upon the pit of hell they have created and is not afraid.

And together with your people, you march upon this castle built on sand, your thought, swift and free like the wind, blows upon the feeble foundation, and down it falls.

It is what they fear most.

It all starts with a thought.

Your thought.

  • Reflection title: Tear Those Castles Down
  • Creative inspiration: Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight
  • Reflection Question: What is my thought being controlled by? Do I fear critical thought as it challenges the foundations of my beliefs and the status quo?
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The Everyday HumanBy Eastin DeVerna