Gary Wright

3 weeks and counting 👅

I have no parents: I make the heavens and earth my parents.
I have no home: I make awareness my home.
I have no life or death: I make the tides of breathing my life and death.
I have no divine power: I make honesty my divine power.
I have no means: I make understanding my means.
I have no magic secrets: I make character my magic secret.
I have no body: I make endurance my body.
I have no eyes: I make the flash of lightning my eyes.
I have no ears: I make sensibility my ears.
I have no limbs: I make promptness my limbs.
I have no strategy: I make 'unshadowed by thought' my strategy.
I have no designs: I make seizing opportunity by the forelock' my design.
I have not miracles: I make right-action my miracles.
I have no principles: I make adaptability to all circumstances my principles.
I have no tactics: I make emptiness and fullness my tactics.
I have no talents: I make ready wit my talent.
I have no friends: I make my mind my friend.
I have no enemy: I make carelessness my enemy.
I have no armour: I make benevolence and
righteousness my armour.
I have no castle: I make immovable-mind my castle.
I have no sword: I make absence of self my sword.

Anonymous Samurai, fourteenth century

Thanks for all the messages everyone apart from the roads being cut off I’m very grateful for being safe. There’s definitely something to be said for living on a hill in a gated community during cyclones and floods.

Please donate to the go fund me account on my story if you haven’t already, I’ve got some close friends that were not so fortunate.

#2023