XXVIII.

I've said this before?
It's not a choice.
It's not.
Not a choice.
No, definitely not.
Not ever, not since
we started living in
communities.

That's just a plain fact.

So maybe it's time
to wake up...

XXVII.

Morality is
less concerned with the details
than you'd think;
it's more forgiving,
more understanding,
and more universal than
culture can comprehend;
it in fact isn't a function
of culture at all,
and if you're confused on that point
you aren't thinking of morality
at all

XXVI.

Morality
exists at a level
such as you don't realize
how important it is
until you think about it,
how it's the glue that holds
everything together,
and is far easier to see
once you stop looking for it,
like the air you breathe,
or the nourishment you take,
or sleeping,
or finding love

Morality,
comes to think of it,
is a lot like love;
you know it by its absence,
you know when it is corrupt,
you know when it's hollow,
you know when you feel it

Morality is love,
perfect love,
the ability to find peace
in the midst of chaos,
the eye of the storm,
order when there seems to be none,
the natural balance of existence,
protecting that which needs protecting,
protected and cherished

loved

An animal kills to survive,
and we are all animals
and we are all processing the world around us,
creating it anew every day,
except some of us are cursed to think,
to consider the impact we have;

Morality is the ability to accept
that which we cannot change
but still hold it accountable;
it is judgment without error,
perfection,
that elusive element
thought lost from the world
yet at the center of all things

love

To consider morality
is to risk everything,
like love,
to reach and fall,
to fail,
to fail and fail endlessly fail,
because that is what makes life
bearable

Wouldn't you say?

XXV.

Morality
is a trickster god;
it wears many hats,
is the common denominator
in all equations
and the hole in things

It's the quintessential
blessing and curse
of humanity;
you can interpret
all our failures
and triumphs
by its subtle art

XXIV.

Morality
trumps dogma

XXIII.

Morality is
a cat (or a dog)
that's loyal
to its owner
(or, companion),
having formed
an unshakable bond

XXII.

Morality isn't
a judgment call,
it's not subjective,
it's not relative,
and it's not a cultural norm

XXI.

Morality isn't
a set of rules

Morality is
a means of growth

Morality is
a learning process

Morality is
to be frustrated
but in a weirdly good way

XX.

Morality isn't
someone else's
misconceptions
or biases
or deliberate lies
but rather a beacon
of truth

XIX.

Live your life so that
doing the right thing
is as fun as
splashing in puddles
is for toddlers

XVIII.

Morality is a cave
from which we emerge
after spending all our time
in it,
discovering not what we
didn't know,
but why we thought we
knew it

Morality is perfect
awareness

XVII.

Morality is
the awareness
of mortality

XVI.

Morality is
the ability to look beyond
someone's faults to see
that their strengths
outweigh them

XV.

Imperiled by
bad judgment,
imperiled by
mortal judgment,
imperiled by
finite thoughts,
imperiled by
everyday limits,
imperiled by
common consent,
imperiled by
conclusions of the day,
imperiled by
the day,
imperiled by
the day,
imperiled by
the consensus of the day,
imperiled by
misinformation,
imperiled by
bad information,
imperiled by
superstition
imperiled by
linear limitations,
imperiled by
false premonition,
imperiled by
politicians,
imperiled by
your fellow citizens,
imperiled by
the media,
imperiled by
your family,
imperiled by
all that you see around you,
all that you hear around you,
all that you speak,
all that you think,
imperiled by all,
by all
by all...

XIV.

Imperiled by
ignorance,
imperiled by
greed,
imperiled by
self-righteousness,
imperiled
and weak-kneed,
imperiled by
oneself,
imperiled by
wont,
imperiled by
screed

XIII.

Morality is
the ability to look beyond
yourself

XII.

Morality is
a lake of ink
that leaves you coated
in itself
provided you truly
submerged yourself
in it

XI.

Morality is
the ability to separate
personal beliefs
from notions of
right and wrong,
and not to judge others
on how they reach
their conclusions

X.

Morality is
the antithesis
of pettiness

IX.

Morality is
doing the right thing
merely because
it's the right thing to do

Basically,
it is synonymous with
altruism